missing partition

[Guest]

Hi;

I Installed second hard disk and format it and saved some file in there.
After I Installed SP2, this partition disappeared! even bios can not see
that. any idea?

Thnaks for your help,
Faram.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Faram.

SP2 has no way to effect the BIOS. However, some BIOSes have trouble
dealing with SP2. Intel's Prescott CPUs might need an updated BIOS; perhaps
other mobo/CPU/chipset combinations also require a BIOS update. Have you
checked with the manufacturer of your mobo?

As for your "disappeared" volume, what does Disk Management say about the
volume and that second HDD?

Has the second HDD been disabled in the CMOS? In some cases, even if the
HDD and/or its controller is disabled in CMOS, WinXP can still see and work
with it.

If you mention the make and model of your hardware, someone here might
recognize it and know how to deal with this problem.

RC

 

[Guest]

Hi there;

Thanks for your respond;

Disk management shows just C: partition and no D: and E: which is CD Drive.
Motherboard is ABIT BD7 and I did not update the driver. CMOS just shows
None for primary slave HDD and CD Drive. I will try to check manufacture to
see if I can find updates.

Reagards,
Faram.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

If the BIOS can't see thee HD, it's either dead, mis-jumpered or not
connected (or a flaky connection). Check cables, wlook what it's set up in
BIOS to be (type? auto or manually cyl/head/sec)...

Windows has no way of seeing that HD if BIOS can't see it.


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[Nick Burns]

Check your IDE connector and make sure it is fully connected and the jumper
on the drive, else the drive died. Make sure it is powered up also.

 

[Nick Burns]

Might also try just your hard drive and the slave, (take out the cd drive).
Try a different cable.