Maxtor HD recognition issue

[asgere]

Maxtor 6Y080L0 80 gig HD, formerly recognized and data stored and transferred, drive letter assigned, no jumper thus seen as slave, now seen but cannot be assigned a drive letter in XP (and no data recognition), recognized as Maxtor 6Y080L0 80 gig HD, seen in BIOS on one machine but not identified by BIOS in another, I'm lost, any suggestions? Jumper configuration is diagrammed on drive, indicates slave is no jumper, I believe that is the way I had it before when I was using it as a second hard drive but I might be mistaken. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It shows a 2 gig logical drive partition and a 72.34 GB healthy partition.

 

[captaincharisma]

does it have a drive letter when looking at it in memory manger in windows?

 

[aford10]

Some BIOS don't have a slave controller. Try putting a jumper in the master position to see if the BIOS will see it then.

 

[asgere]

does it have a drive letter when looking at it in memory manger in windows?

In disk manager, which I assume you mean since I don't know of a memory manager, it does not have, and I can't assign a drive letter. Steve

 

[aford10]

Did you try it as a master drive?

Look in the device manager under the hard disks, is it listed in there?

 

[asgere]

Thanks, I have to find a jumper somewhere, still looking. Steve

 

[asgere]

I failed to mention one item, it has an XP OS, so when jumpered as a master it does not allow it to boot. I jumpered it as cable, it comes up as before. Again, it lists it, it does not give it a drive letter, and no options to do anyting but delete the partition.

 

[aford10]

If it has an OS on it, you can simply repair the windows install using your OS disc. Then it will boot as a master drive.

 

[asgere]

I had bad luck doing that before. I lost most of the data on a hard drive I was trying to put a Linux dual boot on, but it kept the programs I had previously installed, deleting everything that was in my user name except those programs, and only the skeletons of those programs. I have previously done that successfully, multiple times, with XP, but I missed something this time, and I lost much valuable data. I'm trying to capture what I backed up and copied over onto this drive. That's what I find so unusual about being unable to get the data off this hard drive, everything was fine before.

 

[aford10]

The fixmbr command can cause data loss if you have partitions set up. However, if not, simply repairing the windows install won't cause data loss. It should get it to boot for you.