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10-04-2003, 02:25 AM
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HD missing
I was using an MSI Kt3 Ultra-Aru until I recently got an Asus A7n8x Dlx.
I put in the new board..and freshly installed XP Pro. Here is my problem. I have 2 HD's. 2 identical Maxtor 40 Gbs one contains the OS and the other contains ALL my personal stuff. The OS is on the MAster BOot up drive and the other is slave on the same channel. The other channel on the motherboard is connacted to a CD-RW and a DVD. At first everything was great. Everything was perfect until the other day when my second HD dissapeared. Im serious it just dissapeared. So I unPlugged it and then plugged it back. It would still not appear under My Computer. I could see it in the BIOS. I could even see it in Computer Management under Administrative Tools. Yet it does not show up under My Computer. ive been tryin to figure this out for a week now! It hurts coz I do not have a back of my stuff on that drive.. my 3 gigs of photography  Whats a relief though is that at least it say that roughly 7 Gb is in use..which is approxiamtely how much i have used up..   Inline image removed by moderator, please reduce the size to less than 100k and upload it as an attachment, or make it a LOT smaller before you put it inline again.
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10-04-2003, 09:18 AM
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you have the wrong drive active.
C drive , with the operating system, must be the one set to active. and usally is the one in the primary ide port |
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10-04-2003, 02:22 PM
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bailey, C drive is mater while the other drive is slave on the same cable which is plugged intoo the primary Channel on the board..
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10-04-2003, 03:17 PM
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that may be , but you hace the partition set as active, that is incorrect
the O/S must be in the active partition. your screen display in the picture shows the partition as drive 0 and the active partition as drive 1 and is marked as active drive 0 should be the c: drive and drive 1 should be your other partition.( or drive) that is why it is not showing up correctly |
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10-04-2003, 09:16 PM
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so what now?
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10-04-2003, 11:40 PM
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well. I am kinda scratching my head as to how you did this, so I can help you undo it.
first you cannot install the O/S on a primary partition that is not the active one, and you have it that way, so I must assume that you changed it after you installed it. theres something differant on your display thats not the same as mine ( w2000 and xp ) the word active, |
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10-04-2003, 11:50 PM
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ok try this right click on the drive that does not show any drive letter and give it a drive assignment letter
the one that you boot with and has xp on it should be drice c: and the other one with all your personal data on it should be drive d: and drive d: should not be set to active. |
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10-05-2003, 01:26 AM
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cant do that...all properties buttons are greyed out..
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10-05-2003, 03:21 AM
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ok, the part I don't understand is how you set the hard drive with your data on it to active, did it at one time have a O/S on it ?
do you have the drives set for cable select with a 80 conductor ide cable ? Last edited by bailey; 10-05-2003 at 03:24 AM. |
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10-05-2003, 01:43 PM
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No it never had an OS on it... and i do not know how it switched to active..
No i set one as Master and the other as slave on a rounded cable.. |
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10-05-2003, 02:23 PM
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ok try this:
remove the second drive boot the computer with only the drive c: with the O/S on it and see if it will boot, if it gives you any error about not being active fix it. see if it will boot by its self |
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10-05-2003, 07:20 PM
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I got it fixed.
The problem is now that ALL my info is gone it looks like a boot drive with folders like -Local Settings -Program files -Windows IS there any program that can retrieve erased files or formatted drives? |
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10-05-2003, 07:48 PM
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that will depend on exactaly what you did to fix the problem
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10-05-2003, 08:36 PM
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Ontrack Easy Recovery.
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10-06-2003, 01:35 AM
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i changed something from 44 to 07
something GoBack had done.. |
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