TSGL: Slave drive not seen

[Michael Sweeden]

Don:
If was an older machine and a newer/lager hard drive, sometimes in the past
one would need to install an overlay (such as the one provided with
Ontrack's Disk Manager) to overcome BIOS limitations and if that were the
case with this drive it may appear in the BIOS but you may not be able to
see the filesystem. And I suppose it's not out of the realm of possibility
that the drive took a shock or static hit that has caused it to give up the
ghost. Does is still work in the machine from which it came?
Michael

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Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 5:20 PM
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Subject: Re: TSGL: Slave drive not seen


Russ wrote:
>Was the old machine also XP? If not, how is the drive formatted? Is it in a
>format readable by XP SP2?>>


The old machine was W98 and I should think the HD was FAT 32.

Further to Alan's suggestions, I did try running BartCE disk, but that 
didn't recognise the slave drive either.

The shop which built the computer is very experienced. they installed the 
old drive, and I've no doubt they would have been aware of the correct 
jumpers. From feeling it, it does seem to be spinning, and isn't making any 
odd noises.

It was an IDE drive. The new one is Sata I think.

Don Penlington


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