Harddrive Problem

IneRtia dRaft · #1 08-31-2005, 09:55 PM

I'm having a problem with my slave harddrive.

My master which was a Maxtor 40GB drive took a crap on me so I decide to put int a new one. So I put in a WD 80GB for a new master. Which everything is working out fine. Until the PC will not detect my 200GB slave harddrive.

My slave harddrive is a Hitachi 200GB ATA 100/133 harddrive. When I went to the Computer Management under Adminstrative Tools in Control Panel. It say that my slave is a foreign drive. When I installed the slave, I just basically just format it and just used it as storage. Now under the Computer Management box it says Disk 1 (my slave) is under Basic and IS Online. I have 186GB Unallocated right now. I'm afraid that I'm going to loose everything I have.

When I went to Device Manager I clicked under Volume and its a (MBR) Master Boot Record. I think something is wrong.

Does anyone have a solution to fixing it?

Overclocked Doc · #2 08-31-2005, 10:52 PM

Did you enter Bios and select "Detect drives" ?

IneRtia dRaft · #3 08-31-2005, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Overclocked Doc

Did you enter Bios and select "Detect drives" ?

Everything is detected in the BIOS.

Overclocked Doc · #4 09-01-2005, 12:56 PM

Sounds to me, that the 200gb H/D is "blank" and as far as it showing up "Mbr", you are likely seeing the left over "bootsector" from a previous installation (assuming there was one).

TopFarmer · #5 09-01-2005, 09:48 PM

What OS and updates are you useing ? Do you have all the updates that was on the old hdd ? IF it is XP you must have at least SP1, I think for a 200 g hdd.

IneRtia dRaft · #6 09-01-2005, 11:49 PM

well i used a prog to recover all my files from that slave... all i need is to find another 200gb and stuff it in there and then reformat my slave for storage. hahaha. what a hassle.. piece of junk =P

as for OS i'm using win xp pro sp2 (legit now =P) haha.