Secondary drive "unreadable" after "repairing" Windows XP installation

[Guest]

After using the "repair" option from the XP Installation disk, my secondary hard drive (Western Digital EIDE, 160GB) no longer appears. Device Manager says that it is there and operating correctly. My Computer and Explorer can't find it at all. Disk Manager shows it is there, but the status is "unreadable". Have been in contact with the folks at Western Digital, but they have run out of answers. Have tried restoring single disk configuration (it works OK) and then going back to dual disk, but that didn't work out either. Problem originally started when I uninstalled GoBack (by Roxio, part of Norton System Works) and the computer crashed about 15 minutes later. Managed to reboot to DOS and do a scandisk on Drive C. It found and fixed a couple of errors. "Repaired" the windows installation using the XP installation disk. Please don't suggest reformatting the secondary drive. I have about 1000 hours of scanned-in photos I was preparing to move to CD sitting on that drive. I really don't want to lose that unless there is no other choice.

 

[Richard Urban]

You may well have to reinstall Windows XP SP1 service pack to enable 48bit
LBA support.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

After using the "repair" option from the XP Installation disk, my

secondary hard drive (Western Digital EIDE, 160GB) no longer appears.
Device Manager says that it is there and operating correctly. My Computer
and Explorer can't find it at all. Disk Manager shows it is there, but the
status is "unreadable". Have been in contact with the folks at Western
Digital, but they have run out of answers. Have tried restoring single disk
configuration (it works OK) and then going back to dual disk, but that
didn't work out either. Problem originally started when I uninstalled
GoBack (by Roxio, part of Norton System Works) and the computer crashed
about 15 minutes later. Managed to reboot to DOS and do a scandisk on Drive
C. It found and fixed a couple of errors. "Repaired" the windows
installation using the XP installation disk. Please don't suggest
reformatting the secondary drive. I have about 1000 hours of scanned-in
photos I was preparing to move to CD sitting on that drive. I really don't
want to lose that unless there is no other choice.

 

[Guest]

Since the "repair" brought me back to the raw-from-disk version, I have re-installed all available Microsoft updates for XP Pro. Any other ideas?

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

Since the "repair" brought me back to the raw-from-disk version, I have

re-installed all available Microsoft updates for XP Pro. Any other ideas?