Sharon F said:
Windows refers to drives by location rather than drive letters. You've
moved the drive to a new location - in fact all hardware is different.
In other words, if this was my system, I would try a repair install. If
repair is possible: the drive would be officially recognized; WPA would be
reset to the new hardware, all hardware info for the new system would be
updated, etc.
It's possible that you may find that repair is not an available option. In
that case, I would pop in another drive. Install XP to that. Once that is
up and running - attach the other drives and salvage whatever was needed
from them.
Sharon:
Just to give you some additional background on this issue (in case you may
be interested), the OP had previously raised this issue, but apparently the
responses he rec'd did not provide a remedy re his problem.
My last response to the OP was as follows...
Anna said:
DA:
What is shown in Disk Management, if anything, re that problem drive? If
it's listed there without a drive letter, can you assign a drive letter to
it?
And you're absolutely sure the drive is non-defective, right?
And you're absolutely sure the drive is properly connected to the correct
IDE channel, right?
And you're absolutely sure the drive is securely connected to both the
drive's data connector and the motherboard's IDE connector, right?
And you're absolutely sure the drive's IDE data cable is non-defective,
right?
And you're absolutely sure the drive is correctly jumpered, right?
Anna
Dennis continues...
I did assign a drive letter as you said, and thanks. Now the BIOS and
XP recognizes it but it shows the whole drive as unformatted. Now I
know thats not true because it was my former Windows xp C:drive. I did
a dir in DOS and it says it does not recognize the file system for the
drive. This is a fairly recent seagate and when i tried to update the
driver it says i have the most recent one.
I also received a response from Anna asking me to check all the
connections etc. I cant tell you how often I have done this. but it
does show up as an IDE slave in BIOS and it is connected as such.
Seagate has a function called cable select so it should see it
correctly.
I wonder if the type of format is an issue? Maybe I need to take it
somewhere and have them extract the info? Thing is I have another
newer seagate drive that does the same thing when I plug it in.
Actually, since it was an old c: drive, i tried disconnecting the other
drives and using it as a master but that didnt work either.
So where or where am i going wrong here?
Dennis
P.S> Thanks Anna for your info!
Dennis's latest posting...
Still dead in water, anyone else have any suggestions????? PLEASE??
Dennis
Dennis:
First of all, for your own sake, please post sufficient background info re
your original query and any relevant responses you rec'd. Don't merely make
some plaintive cry for help (like your latest one-liner above) without
giving sufficient background info re this issue. Don't force potential
responders to search the newsgroup for background material. Frankly, the
only reason I did so in this case was because I noted a reference to my
name.
Anyway, I've included in my posting your original query and my previous
response.
1. When you say re that Seagate problem drive, "it shows the whole drive as
unformatted", you're referring to Disk Management as "it", right? Showing
that drive as unformatted is an ominous sign.
2. Does DM also show that drive as unpartitioned? Or does it just show
"unallocated" disk space?
3. You mentioned "cable select". Tell us *precisely* how you've
connected/configured/jumpered that drive. Tell us *precisely* how you've
connected the IDE ribbon cable to the drive and the motherboard's IDE
connector. Have you tried different configurations, e.g., connecting the
drive as Primary Master or Secondary Master?
4. I assume you're booting up normally with one of your SATA drives, right?
And no problem with the OS recognizing both of your SATA HDs, yes?
5. You originally said that Seagate HD had two partitions (presumably
formatted). Later you say "I did assign a drive letter" presumably in Disk
Management. Were you able to assign TWO drive letters, one for each
partition?
6. You say the "problem" drive was your former C: drive (and I guess had
another partition as well). What happened when you disconnected the two SATA
drives and booted to the Seagate? I know you said it didn't boot, but what
exactly happened?
7. You're absolutely sure the Seagate is non-defective? You've used the
Seagate diagnostic utility (which you can download from Seagate) to test the
drive, or you have some other reason to believe that there's no problem with
the disk itself?
8. You also said you're having the same non-recognition problem with another
Seagate drive. On the off-chance that there might be a problem with the
motherboard's IDE connectors, can you connect an optical drive to the
Primary Master connector just to make sure it's working OK.
If you do respond to this post, please do so giving *precise* information to
my questions - as clear & as detailed as you can.
Anna
Sharon - I just thought I would give you this background in case you plan to
pursue this issue further with the OP.
Anna
