Hi guys
I have 3 SATA hard drives. Windows XP Home SP2 was set up on an older 250gb Seagate drive, and later I added two 1tb WD Caviar Blue internal drives. The first Caviar Blue I added with no problems. Later when I added the second Caviar Blue, Windows did not recognize it, I recall messing around with the drive letters in Computer Management and eventually the drive was recognized and usable. In the mean time, I have filled both these 1tb drives to the brim with data.
So about two weeks ago I get an AVG message that some system file is corrupt, I clean it(guess AVG removed it) and all of a sudden my control keys stop working. Some error messages start popping up on start-up and after some further reading I decide to do a fresh re-installation of Windows, hoping this will fix the control key issue(which it didn't by the way and I am at a total loss about this as well).
Here comes the drum roll moment. With both my SATA secondary drives still ATTACHED, I formatted and re-installed Windows XP Home SP2 on the 250gb primary drive. Now I've heard this is a bad idea, I just completely forgot to remove them.
When the Windows installation was complete, one of my Caviar Blue drives was recognized, the other not. In Disk Management it comes up as Foreign and Dynamic, and the only option I have is to Convert it to Basic.
I actually detached both secondary Caviar Blue drives, and re-installed Windows, but I'm sitting with the same problem. Is there any way I can get Windows to recognize this drive? If not, have I lost all the data on this drive? Any insight as to why neither the control buttons on my serial nor my usb keyboard work would also be helpful.
My motherboard is the Gigabyte G41MT-S2PT 775 Socket model. All my hard drives are NTFS.
EDIT: Ok so I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 and was able to mount the hard drive and access the data. Does this mean that the drive is in fact not damaged? Is there any way I can get Windows XP Home to recognize it?
I have 3 SATA hard drives. Windows XP Home SP2 was set up on an older 250gb Seagate drive, and later I added two 1tb WD Caviar Blue internal drives. The first Caviar Blue I added with no problems. Later when I added the second Caviar Blue, Windows did not recognize it, I recall messing around with the drive letters in Computer Management and eventually the drive was recognized and usable. In the mean time, I have filled both these 1tb drives to the brim with data.
So about two weeks ago I get an AVG message that some system file is corrupt, I clean it(guess AVG removed it) and all of a sudden my control keys stop working. Some error messages start popping up on start-up and after some further reading I decide to do a fresh re-installation of Windows, hoping this will fix the control key issue(which it didn't by the way and I am at a total loss about this as well).
Here comes the drum roll moment. With both my SATA secondary drives still ATTACHED, I formatted and re-installed Windows XP Home SP2 on the 250gb primary drive. Now I've heard this is a bad idea, I just completely forgot to remove them.
When the Windows installation was complete, one of my Caviar Blue drives was recognized, the other not. In Disk Management it comes up as Foreign and Dynamic, and the only option I have is to Convert it to Basic.
I actually detached both secondary Caviar Blue drives, and re-installed Windows, but I'm sitting with the same problem. Is there any way I can get Windows to recognize this drive? If not, have I lost all the data on this drive? Any insight as to why neither the control buttons on my serial nor my usb keyboard work would also be helpful.
My motherboard is the Gigabyte G41MT-S2PT 775 Socket model. All my hard drives are NTFS.
EDIT: Ok so I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 and was able to mount the hard drive and access the data. Does this mean that the drive is in fact not damaged? Is there any way I can get Windows XP Home to recognize it?
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