Before re-formatting and re-installing XP onto my 160GB master disk I backed-up all my data onto my 40GB slave drive. The system boots fine from the master drive but my slave drive is not recognised. Disk management reports that the master drive C: 127.99GB NTFS Healthy (System) and the remainder of the master disk as a partition Z: 25.39GB NTFS Healthy. My slave drive is reported within disk management as 38.34 GB NTFS Health Active (the right click only gives me the option to delete partiton) My computer does not report this drive at all. Any ideas why this disk is not recognised? and is a re-format of this drive the only option, losing all my saved data.
i don't know what your problem is but i think i remember that this problem has come up before, megamaced knew the answer
I've checked the posts made by megamaced, although similar, they don't cover my problem exactly. So has anybody got any more ideas... please
well when i install XP, i install with no other drives installed, so maybe if you disconnect the slave hdd start XP, then shutdown and reconnect the slave and it will probably be in explorer
The slave drive should not be set to active. Go to the bottom of Disk Management (where the colour bars are) and right click the slave partition. Look for something that says 'unmark partition as active'.
only 2 reasons comes in my mind......First what megamaced have said, initialise your drive from bottom right of Disk Management. Second, your computer needs a BIOS upgrade. (bit risky, so be careful)
