TSGL: Slave drive not seen

[Don James]

Hi
Could it be that you now have HDs with 2 Active partitions on the HDs.
Also could we send you a bucket and some sun in place of the storms?
Don James

Don Penlington wrote:
> I'm setting up a new computer for a friend. He has had the hard drive from 
> his old computer temporarily installed as a slave drive on the new computer 
> so that he can extract his files from it. (His old computer suddenly failed 
> for some unknown reason and he has no backups).
>
> The new system is XP SP2 with AVG a-v and Zone Alarm Pro, which I have 
> installed for him.
>
> The 2nd drive is seen as a slave in bios, and is seen with no details other 
> than its name ("WD.....") and size in Device Manager, which says it's 
> working OK.
>
> It is not visible in My Computer, nor in Drive Management.
>
> I have tried uninstalling its driver in Device Manager and rebooting, but 
> that didn't make any difference.
>
> I have run "Restore" which is a data recovery utility, but it doesn't see 
> the old HD either.
>
> Is there any way I can make it readable?   I could possibly try 
> partitioning the old drive via the XP CD, but I fear that that process will 
> wipe all existing data, and I don't want to risk that. I'm not sure if it 
> would even show up or whether it would be effective in any event.
>
> If the old drive was "cooked", would Device Manager and BIOS still see it?
>
> Any suggestions on how to make the old drive visible? Otherwise I'll get 
> him to take it into the local shop which built the computer to see what 
> they can do.
>
> Don Penlington
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