Partiton repair

[Guest]

I connected a new HD to my PC and put the old WinXP HD as the slave on the same IDE cable. I installed XP on the new drive and was going to copy files between HDs. The old drive shows up as healthy (active) under Disk Management in the new WinXP install but it has no drive letter and can't be accessed. WinXP on the new drive sees that the old HD is about half-full, formated with NTFS and is partitioned but can't access it. I can't boot the old drive. I was able to see/recover some files using some trial recovery software but I think the fix is a simple repair of the partition. It seems like the DOS program PTD was able to fix the partition but the trial software won't let me save changes to the HD. Any other free utilities out there that repair partitons

I think the partition problem happened during the install of WinXP on the new drive.

 

[DaveD]

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I connected a new HD to my PC and put the old WinXP HD as the slave on

the same IDE cable. I installed XP on the new drive and was going to
copy files between HDs. The old drive shows up as healthy (active) under
Disk Management in the new WinXP install but it has no drive letter and
can't be accessed. WinXP on the new drive sees that the old HD is about
half-full, formated with NTFS and is partitioned but can't access it. I
can't boot the old drive. I was able to see/recover some files using
some trial recovery software but I think the fix is a simple repair of
the partition. It seems like the DOS program PTD was able to fix the
partition but the trial software won't let me save changes to the HD.
Any other free utilities out there that repair partitons?

I think the partition problem happened during the install of WinXP on

the new drive.

 

[sgopus]

You say you set the old drive as slave, and then installed
a new drive as master. did you change the jumper on the
old drive, or did you just put the old drive, on the cable
and assumed it would set it as slave?
if the jumpers are not set correctly, and having both
drives
as master will cause file damage on both drives.

If you can see the drive within disk manager, you can
assign a drive letter and that may resolve your issue.
just highlight the drive and right click, choose
assign drive letter and voila..