2 hard drives, *sigh*

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I've recently upgraded to XP, and now I cannot access my second hard drive. It is listed as a local drive, (my first hard drive is listed as a local drive as well) when I click on it,..I receive a message,. not formatted, do I want to format now. I want to retain all the info on that hard drive. It was basically used to store pics, etc. I'm not sure what to do,..any suggestions?... thanks..

 

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Let me guess, it is a W-D drive? There is a problem with
their firmware.

see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812581&Product=winxp


"rikki" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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| I've recently upgraded to XP, and now I cannot access my
second hard drive. It is listed as a local drive, (my first
hard drive is listed as a local drive as well) when I click
on it,..I receive a message,. not formatted, do I want to
format now. I want to retain all the info on that hard
drive. It was basically used to store pics, etc. I'm not
sure what to do,..any suggestions?... thanks..

 

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It is actually a Quantum, not sure if that is good or bad,... I'll take a look at the link, it has never been an issue until XP,.. thank you for your response...

 

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Maxtor is Quantum, check their site for issues.


"rikki" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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| It is actually a Quantum, not sure if that is good or
bad,... I'll take a look at the link, it has never been an
issue until XP,.. thank you for your response...

 

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Under your previous operating system (98 or ME, I assume?), was the second
hard drive directly recognized by the motherboard's BIOS or was it necessary
to do some sort of tricky shifting of indices of sectors to get it recognize
the whole drive. Some disk manufacuter's provide such software as part of
their installaion package, so you hardly even know it is there. Yet, if you
swich to XP, that same software will not work. New software is likely
available from the disk vendor, but it may require reformating and
re-installing.

Suggestions: (1) Determine the maximum size hard drive that your BOIS can
handle directly. Read the motherboard manual, or check with the support
site for the motherboard (or the PC if a major brand like Dell, gateway,
Compaq, etc). (2) If the max size is larger than the second drive, ignore
what I wrote above. (3) But, if it smaller, then seek help from (a) the PC
motherboard or PC maker, or (b) from the hard drive maker.
"rikki" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've recently upgraded to XP, and now I cannot access my second hard
drive. It is listed as a local drive, (my first hard drive is listed as a
local drive as well) when I click on it,..I receive a message,. not
formatted, do I want to format now. I want to retain all the info on that
hard drive. It was basically used to store pics, etc. I'm not sure what to
do,..any suggestions?... thanks..