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Hi Ron,
Thanks for sticking with me on this issue. I have a question before I
proceed with options one or two below.
Doesn't FDISK also format/erase everything on the drive? I want to avoid
this if possible because I have documents I need to access on it. If nothing
else hopefully I can try testing the drive on another system or getting the
files transferred at least before I reformat the drive. In the meantime, I
will try option one for now.
Thanks again,
Patty
"Ron Martell" <ron.martell@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Pawz" <pawz@home.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi again,
>>
>>The second drive is set up as the slave drive on the primary IDE channel,
>>with the original drive the master drive. I've tried changing the jumper
>>settings and nothing seems to make a difference. The BIOS still recognizes
>>the drive but XP does not let me access it in My Computer or Disk
>>Management.
>>
>>When I tried to "populate" the drive. I got this message/screen shot,
>>which
>>says the slave drive volume is not found or is unreadable. (see attached)
>>
>>Device Manager shows it as working properly still. (see attached) I can't
>>figure out what to do to get XP to recognize it.
>>
>>Thanks for any further input!
>>
>
> Okay. Time to get a bit drastic about this.
>
> 1. Reconfigure your drive connections temporarily. Disconnect all of
> the drives that you now have on the Secondary IDE channel (e.g.
> CDROM). Rejumper the old drive as Master and connect it to the
> Secondary IDE cable. Does that work?
>
> 2. If not disconnect your new drive and connect the old drive as the
> Primary IDE master. Ensure that it and the 3.5 diskette drive are the
> only drives that are connected. Boot the computer with a Windows 98
> or Windows Me Startup Disk (www.bootdisk.com) and use FDISK to
> partition the drive.
>
>
> I suspect that we may have an incompatibility issue that prevents the
> two drives from working properly when connected as Master and Slave on
> the same IDE channel. Rare, but it does happen, but usually only when
> the drives are from different manufacturers and I believe that both
> your drives are Maxtors.
>
> Post the results back here.
>
> Good luck.
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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