Missing Disk Drive - Please help !!

[Guest]

Hi

I've just loaded WinXP onto a new, clean disk using NTFS and it's all gone
fine. But I have also connected a second hard disk, full of data, which was
my old Win98 disk (so formatted in FAT32). This disk is conencted as the
slave to the new Win XP master. The slave (Win 98) disk shows up in Disk
Management and in the device manager, but not in My computer or Explorer.
Disk Management shows it as "healthy" "active" and "online", but the only
option it allows when you right-click the drive is "delete partition".

I don't want to boot from this disk, or use Win98 on it - just want toaccess
some files on it (i.e. copy across to new disk). How can I get this disk to
show up and be accessible to the new WinXP system ???

Any help gratefully received.......

 

[Guest]

In diskmgmt L.click on the drive,go to actions,all,select,make active.

 

[Guest]

Hi - thanks for that..... I tried it, but all options in that menu are greyed
out except "delete partition"..... ! I'm baffled - the disk is there but I
don't seem to be able to get at it....... any more clues ?
Phil

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem did you ever find a way to fix this ? please let me
know thanks

 

[Guest]

Hi Guys,

I just spent two days wrestling with a problem that sounds similar to
yours....My Computer/Windows Explorer suddenly wouldn't show my slave HDD.
But my BIOS detected it on startup, as did Device Manager and Computer
Management/Disk Management in Windows, showing it as an intact, healthy, and
active NTFS partition.

Finally after looking about on the web I found the answer. Whether or not
our problems are truly the same, hopefully my solution will help you.

The one thing that helped was that I had installed Partition Magic, which
said that my drive was actually partition type 44 (Hex). This guy's story
helped me...http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9900480...and
everything's fine now. Apparently I had also installed Norton GoBack....bad
mistake as that's what caused the problem. But I did as the article
recommended. I made Partition Magic rescue floppy disks, ran them (restart
and it'll load Dr. Caldera DOS. It loaded the Partition Magic screen, from
which I exited...which brought me to the DOS prompt. The one of the rescue
disks (the first one in my case) has a program on it called PTEDIT.EXE. Run
it, choose which disk you're having problems with and click the "Set Type"
(or maybe "Change Type" button. It'll bring up a list of partition
types...choose the one you want. I chose FAT32 knowing that I could convert
it to NTFS in Windows. When I restarted, my drive was back and no harm done
(aside from the patches of hair I pulled from my head over the last 48
hours). And when I tried to convert D: drive from FAT32, Windows said it
was already NTFS. Sweet Jesus, WinXP didn't even know the partition type had
ever changed!!!

Anyway, sorry for being overly verbose....I hope this helps this someone.
My thanks especially to Jack W. Crenshaw (see link above) and to Partition
Magic - great program.