Help - slave drive converted to RAW

[Stephen]

Hi

I've done a stupid thing.

I installed another hard drive (not new) as a slave.

Everything was fine - but it still had XP OS and loads of files.

So I removed everything, still the drive was OK.

There was still around 6GB used space left on the drive,
so I FORMATTED it - it told me that I would be removing
a partition and in doing so will remove the data.

Well that's what I wanted - so I clicked YES.

Now I have ended up with a hard drive which will not allow
me access because it is NOT Formatted. But the system will
not allow me to format it because the drive is a RAW drive.

I have tried formatting from XP Disk Management, and from
the command prompt C:\ DIR G; . . . . but the drive is not recognised.

I thought formatting a hard drive was like a floppy - that it would
maintain whatever it needed to work.

Does anyone know how to reinstall the system files that are
apparently required to get this SLAVE disk going again.

I have got a OME XP Recovery Disk - and XP SP 2 disc.

Thanks a lot - Stephen

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi

I've done a stupid thing.

I installed another hard drive (not new) as a slave.

Everything was fine - but it still had XP OS and loads of files.

So I removed everything, still the drive was OK.

There was still around 6GB used space left on the drive,
so I FORMATTED it - it told me that I would be removing
a partition and in doing so will remove the data.

Well that's what I wanted - so I clicked YES.

Now I have ended up with a hard drive which will not allow
me access because it is NOT Formatted. But the system will
not allow me to format it because the drive is a RAW drive.

I have tried formatting from XP Disk Management, and from
the command prompt C:\ DIR G; . . . . but the drive is not recognised.

I thought formatting a hard drive was like a floppy - that it would
maintain whatever it needed to work.

Not if you removed the partition(s). These are critical.

Does anyone know how to reinstall the system files that are
apparently required to get this SLAVE disk going again.

I have got a OME XP Recovery Disk - and XP SP 2 disc.

Thanks a lot - Stephen

So, you removed the partition and did not recreate one?

In that case, use diskpart or the disk management utility to create a new
partition, assign it a letter, and format it - in that order.

HTH
-pk