Windows XP SP2 rebuild sees caddy HD now unreadable

[Steve]

Hi,
I have videos stored on removeable caddies with ATA HDs, created on a dual
boot PC, the partition created with Partition Magic 8 when booted into the
Win2K side of things. I was running daily Win XP home SP1 and never had a
problem with my caddies. I have done a PC rebuild going over to using
internal SATA HDs and SP2 loaded on before any progs. I now come to use a
ATA caddy and both partitions say RAW as opposed to NTFS. After windows
bootup saw chkdsk operate on one if not both of the partitions one is now
reading as NTFS , I can now see its contents , the other refuses to be
seen however , message in explorer says J is not accessible, the file
or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Months of work here and all the
caddy did was sit in a safe cupboard during the rebuild.
Very worrying. Another had the same error on one partition, thats now
readable again perhaps due to chkdsk fixing something. Why though have these
caddies displayed such after working fine as NTFS with other internal ATA
HDs prior to the rebuild. Pre rebuild it was attached via ribbon to a RAID
pci card (not running raid but just giving another IDE socket as I have
three opticals running on those on the M'Bd). It now is on the end of a
ribbon as slave, then is an optical DVD/CDreader/writer and this goes onto
IDE socket on Mbd. Those that were cable select were stopping the optical
from being seen so now they are set to slave.
How can I get that partition to show its contents again ? Months of work
there.
Steve

 

[philo]

Hi,
I have videos stored on removeable caddies with ATA HDs, created on a dual
boot PC, the partition created with Partition Magic 8 when booted into the
Win2K side of things. I was running daily Win XP home SP1 and never had a
problem with my caddies. I have done a PC rebuild going over to using
internal SATA HDs and SP2 loaded on before any progs. I now come to use a
ATA caddy and both partitions say RAW as opposed to NTFS. After windows
bootup saw chkdsk operate on one if not both of the partitions one is now
reading as NTFS , I can now see its contents , the other refuses to be
seen however , message in explorer says J is not accessible, the file
or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Months of work here and all the
caddy did was sit in a safe cupboard during the rebuild.
Very worrying. Another had the same error on one partition, thats now
readable again perhaps due to chkdsk fixing something. Why though have these
caddies displayed such after working fine as NTFS with other internal ATA
HDs prior to the rebuild. Pre rebuild it was attached via ribbon to a RAID
pci card (not running raid but just giving another IDE socket as I have
three opticals running on those on the M'Bd). It now is on the end of a
ribbon as slave, then is an optical DVD/CDreader/writer and this goes onto
IDE socket on Mbd. Those that were cable select were stopping the optical
from being seen so now they are set to slave.
How can I get that partition to show its contents again ? Months of work
there.
Steve

The caddies can fail....
I use them too and have had to replace both the caddies and the receptors
from time to time.

Hook the drive up directly to your IDE cable and hopefully it will be
readable