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Hi and thanks Anna for your input,
These are things that I have gone over in my mind, I would of and did have
the two drives separated, C: power on D: off , if I do any work on the other
Drive. You know I changed out my cable with a Brand new one, connections all
good. Your also correct in that the way i did this config in the first place
was Install fresh Windows on each Drive. Then when it came time I started it
up in A M/S config, C: was happy it had all it needed to run and be the Boss
OS. D: didn't care about anything either I simply deleted Windows Folder,
Happy Days ahead. That was the past I just put D: thru a CHKDSK and its fine,
healthy with no Windows OS. I am thinking what does Windows XP need to see on
a Disc (the minimum) so it will allow it on, or to be seen. Yes your correct
this is alot of Data that I dont have backed up, I just could not see this
happen after it has worked well for years and gone through many C:
Reinstallations. If I could find that "Minimum" I might get it .
Thanks Again,
Onward Through The Fog,
Darnko
"Anna" wrote:
> >> "Darnko" <Darnko@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:CC1CB580-7AB3-4C31-9A3A-94B5C5B38150@microsoft.com...
> >> >I just recently reformatted my C: Drive and before I did this I was in a
> >> > Master slave config that worked excellent. Now with same drives same
> >> > config,
> >> > Windows Xp Home Edition sees the drive. In Computer Management I can't
> >> > get
> >> > Windows to accept it, No Option to assign Drive Letter, Only to Format
> >> > or
> >> > delete. It sees it as a 'Basic' Partion, Heathy, active, the size the
> >> > used
> >> > and free portions. Anybody have ideas as I really didn't prepare for
> >> > this
> >> > because it worked well in the past. Maybe an SP2 issue as I never have
> >> > done
> >> > it with SP2 before? Help...
> >> > --
> >> > Onward Through The Fog,
> >> > Darnko
>
>
> > "Walter Clayton" wrote:
> >> Go to
http://www.bootitng.com and go to the free software section.
> >> Download
> >> partinfo and unzip it.
> >> Now the tricky part for the GUI folks that don't do command line stuff.
> >>
> >>
> >> Open a command prompt in the directory where you unzipped partinfo.
> >> Run the following commands:
> >>
> >> partinfw >partinfo.txt
> >> start notepad partinfo.txt
> >>
> >> And yes, that is partinfW and not an O.
> >> This will generate a report of your current HD and partition structure
> >> and
> >> then open it in notepad.
> >> Copy and paste the results back here.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Walter Clayton
> >> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> >>
http://www.dts-l.org
>
>
> "Darnko" <Darnko@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CCA7F607-C8EB-470E-8273-3FF65C877522@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks Walter for the tip, But I get my results and copy them but as to
> > where
> > I paste them I am stumped. Please elaborate.
>
>
> Darnko:
> Before getting too involved with Walter's suggestion -- perhaps it might be
> better at this point to consider the following...
>
> 1. This second drive you're having problems with has data on it, right? It's
> not a new drive or some older one whose partition(s) have been deleted,
> right? It's been partitioned & formatted, right?
>
> 2. You say that before you reformatted your C: drive you were "in a Master
> slave config that worked excellent. Now with same drives same
> config, ..." (the problem began). Then you didn't change your
> connection/configuration of those two drives in any way following the
> formatting of your C: drive, right? You're sure that the Slave drive is
> properly connected and that its jumpered position is correct, right? Might
> it be wise to recheck the IDE cable connections and jumpered position of
> your Slave drive?
>
> 3. Since your second drive recognition problem began following the
> formatting of your C: drive (I presume you used the XP installation CD to
> perform the formatting, right?), do you recall whether there was any
> reference to your second drive during that process and/or whether you made
> any entries or selected any option that referred to that second drive?
>
> Anna
>
>
>
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