Bios Reads HD, XP does not

[willys]

Working with maxtor 6b160po hardrive. It came with cs enabled and I installed it that way with a maxtor ide 133 pci card. Worked but computer locked up a lot. Reinstalled xp and all software thinking software was problem. Now led to the hardrive as problem. Purchased an adaptec pci 133 card thinking that was problem. now looking at flat cable and see that copper wire was exposed and may have contacted computer case. Computer would show hardisk on bios and device manager but not xp

Moved hd to another computer as slave drive. Shows here on bios and device manager.

Is there any hope of recovering the data on this disk?

Willy

[Cricket]

The data should still be there if the only problem was the exposed wire on the cable.

When it's in the other computer, can you view the files from Windows Explorer?

Does the other computer have a CD or DVD burner in it?

:) Cricket

[willys]

xp does not show the drive so I cannot read it on either computer. Seems to be spinning when I tough the drive.

willy

[willys]

Research is mixed for me. Comments show that if bios shows the drive and system manager shows the drive that I may recover the data. Why is xp not recognizing it and how to I salvage this drive?

willy

[glc]

What does Disk Manager show the partition as?

Free data recovery software to try:

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

[willys]

can anyone explain why xp would not show the drive but bios does? want to know a little more before I proceed. Everything I touch and do lately turns to crap.

Willy

[willys]

can running the maxtor disk diagnose programs cause any potential problems in losing data?

[thefultonhow]

Try this: right-click on My Computer and go to Manage, then to Disk Management. If the drive shows up in the pane at the bottom right, you can re-assign a drive letter to it.

[willys]

Got it to work with a recovery program I downloaded so saved data. Someone indicated that problem might have been trying to have more than 4 ide device on an asus motherboard even thought I had a second pci card installed. The pci card showed as a scsi drive, should that have worked?

Anyway seems to work now if I limit to 4 ide devices. Right now if I install either of two pci ide cards, it lock up before booting, even with no devices attached to the card.

[glc]

Try putting the card in a different PCI slot.

[willys]

I will try that. In mean time has anyone had any problems or successes running more than 4 ide devices on their computer? IRQ conflict was part of the comments made to me.

[thefultonhow]

My friend has seven -- four optical drives and three hard drives -- and he has not had any problems.

[glc]

What model is the motherboard? If it's an older board without APIC and ACPI capability, IRQ conflicts are going to be there, and you have to try different slots to try to resolve them.