Missing second (slave) drive after cloning

[Charlie]

Two drives in computer. Boot drive was getting full so installed a
blank drive as #2 (160 gig) and made a clone of the boot drive. I’ve
done this many times but never under Xp. Removed the #1 drive, set the
#2 (clone of #1 boot) as master. Reinstalled my original #2 slave
drive. System boots fine. Xp does now show the #2 drive (slave) in
*my computer*. All jumpers are correct.

System/hardware/device manager/drives/properties correctly identifies
the drives as location 0 & 1 and both are operating properly.

I can use Partition Magic to browse the partitions on both drives and I
can even show what’s in the folders on the (missing) drive. The drives
are NTFS and the only other machines I have are all Win98 that, I
believe, will not read an NTFS drive.

Barring backing up everything irreplaceable on the #1 boot drive,
reformatting it, and reinstalling Xp and hoping the #2 drive shows up…do
I have any other options? There are some Mp3’s and graphics on the #2
drive I would not like to lose if possible.

Thanks.

Charlie

 

[philo]

Two drives in computer. Boot drive was getting full so installed a blank
drive as #2 (160 gig) and made a clone of the boot drive. I’ve done this
many times but never under Xp. Removed the #1 drive, set the #2 (clone of
#1 boot) as master. Reinstalled my original #2 slave drive. System boots
fine. Xp does now show the #2 drive (slave) in *my computer*. All
jumpers are correct.

<snip>

can you assign the drive a letter in disk management?

 

[Anna]

Two drives in computer. Boot drive was getting full so installed a blank
drive as #2 (160 gig) and made a clone of the boot drive. I’ve done this
many times but never under Xp. Removed the #1 drive, set the #2 (clone of
#1 boot) as master. Reinstalled my original #2 slave drive. System boots
fine. Xp does now show the #2 drive (slave) in *my computer*. All
jumpers are correct.

System/hardware/device manager/drives/properties correctly identifies the
drives as location 0 & 1 and both are operating properly.

I can use Partition Magic to browse the partitions on both drives and I
can even show what’s in the folders on the (missing) drive. The drives
are NTFS and the only other machines I have are all Win98 that, I believe,
will not read an NTFS drive.

Barring backing up everything irreplaceable on the #1 boot drive,
reformatting it, and reinstalling Xp and hoping the #2 drive shows up…do I
have any other options? There are some Mp3’s and graphics on the #2 drive
I would not like to lose if possible.

Thanks.

Charlie

Charlie:
First of all, we're assuming that the problem drive and its IDE cable are
non-defective and that the drive is correctly configured & connected.

Access Disk Management (Start > right-click My Computer > Manage > Computer
Management > Disk Management) and see if your secondary HD is listed,
possibly with no drive letter assignment. If so, see if you can assign a
drive letter to the drive.

If the drive is listed, but you're unable to assign a drive letter, power
off, disconnect the secondary drive and boot only with your primary HD.
Power off, reconnect the secondary drive and see if it's now recognized by
the system.

Other options...
1. Just to make sure, if you have another IDE cable available, use it.
2. Try connecting the problem drive to another IDE channel.
3. Assuming you have another HD available, try cloning the contents of the
problem drive to that HD and see if you can now access the latter drive's
contents.

And you're sure that the problem drive and its IDE cable are non-defective
and that the drive is correctly configured & connected, right? You've
examined the data pins on the drive and none of them are bent, distorted, or
missing, right?
Anna

 

[Charlie]

<snip>

can you assign the drive a letter in disk management?

Yes, I just did following Anna's explanation.
Thanks for your help.

Charlie

 

[Charlie]

Charlie:
First of all, we're assuming that the problem drive and its IDE cable are
non-defective and that the drive is correctly configured & connected.

Access Disk Management (Start > right-click My Computer > Manage > Computer
Management > Disk Management) and see if your secondary HD is listed,
possibly with no drive letter assignment. If so, see if you can assign a
drive letter to the drive.

If the drive is listed, but you're unable to assign a drive letter, power
off, disconnect the secondary drive and boot only with your primary HD.
Power off, reconnect the secondary drive and see if it's now recognized by
the system.

Other options...
1. Just to make sure, if you have another IDE cable available, use it.
2. Try connecting the problem drive to another IDE channel.
3. Assuming you have another HD available, try cloning the contents of the
problem drive to that HD and see if you can now access the latter drive's
contents.

And you're sure that the problem drive and its IDE cable are non-defective
and that the drive is correctly configured & connected, right? You've
examined the data pins on the drive and none of them are bent, distorted, or
missing, right?
Anna

Following your instructions I was able to assign drive letters and now
all is correct.
For other reasons I think I am going to do some major backing up and
just reinstall everything.

Thank you!

Charlie

 

[philo]

Yes, I just did following Anna's explanation.
Thanks for your help.

Charlie

OK.