lost secondary hard drive <<HELP!>>

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A couple of days ago I went to my PC and found a BSoD on screen, I
just put it down to the heat and rebooted. Wouldnt boot, kept getting
blue screen errors (various) and eventually I unplugged my secondary
hard drive and booted successfully. Whenever I plug the drive back in
I get a BSoD, leaving it out Windows is okay.
So I put the secondary drive in as a slave on another machine, and hey
presto it boots. I caught a glimpse of the 'new device detected' blurb
before it recognised it as a hard drive and the popup disappeared. But
when I look in My Computer there is only the C drive listed! Device
Manager shows the two drives okay and says there is no problem with
it, but in Windows itself I cant 'see' it. Obvious solution is format
it, but I cant do that - I have no backup of a huge folder of images
on that drive (the secondary drive WAS my backup, and recently I
formatted my main drive so I dont have another copy of its contents).
Unfortunately there's no copy of Windows on that drive so I cant boot
from it as a master. In Admin Tools>Computer Management it shows the
second drive (no drive letter assigned) as "Online" and "Healthy".
What can I do? :o(
By the way, both computers (my main and the temp one I tried loading
it on) are running WinXP, one Home and one Pro. The hard drive is
formatted as NTFS
 
nothanks said:
A couple of days ago I went to my PC and found a BSoD on screen, I
just put it down to the heat and rebooted. Wouldnt boot, kept getting
blue screen errors (various) and eventually I unplugged my secondary
hard drive and booted successfully. Whenever I plug the drive back in
I get a BSoD, leaving it out Windows is okay.
So I put the secondary drive in as a slave on another machine, and hey
presto it boots. I caught a glimpse of the 'new device detected' blurb
before it recognised it as a hard drive and the popup disappeared. But
when I look in My Computer there is only the C drive listed! Device
Manager shows the two drives okay and says there is no problem with
it, but in Windows itself I cant 'see' it.
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In Admin Tools>Computer Management it shows the
second drive (no drive letter assigned) as "Online" and "Healthy".
What can I do? :o(
By the way, both computers (my main and the temp one I tried loading
it on) are running WinXP, one Home and one Pro. The hard drive is
formatted as NTFS
Click to expand...

To give us a better picture you could post a partinfo output. Get partinfo here-
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/PARTINFO.ZIP
Read the included readme.txt file for instructions on how to run it.
 
I ahve had a similar problem recently,with an NTFS (XP Pro) slave disc.My
desktop crashed and will not revive. I removed the slave disc with all my
documents on it. I bought a HD box with a power supply an usb connection.
When I connect this to either an XP home (FAT 32) or Pro (NTFS) it conects
but I canntot assign a drive letter. The disc management tool 'sees'it as a
physical drive (disc 1) but I cannot assign a drive letter to it.
This is also the situation if I place the disc inside a desktop running XP
pro and set the drive as a slave. I could reformat the disc and lose about 1
months work but would raher not. I spoke with MS support in Austrlia but they
were either unwillng or unable to help.

Regards
Larry North
 
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