I’ve got 2 x 1TB Samsung HHD in my machine. The set-up had been that only one of the drives was in use (with 4 partitions – C:100GB boot partition, D:150GB, E:250GB & F:500GB). At that point both of them could be seen in bios. Now a few days ago the main hard drive developed a fault (XP would not boot up, could not get into safe mode, could not repair it etc - However at this point both of them could still be seen in BIOS) so I opened up the machine and swapped them around and did a clean install of WinXP on the hard drive which had never been used. During the install XP did detect the 2nd drive (the corrupt one) and the new one was partitioned in exactly the same way/size.
Now I have data on the old corrupt drive (on partitions D,E & F) and was hoping that I would somehow be able to access that when logged into XP with the new drive and copy it across. However now I cannot even see the corrupted drive in bios or in computer management in XP.
Currently XP takes longer to load when both drives are connected (sata 1 new drive & sata 2 corrupted drive), however when I disconnect sata 2 then XP loads much quicker.
So is my problem caused due to both drives having a boot partition with an operating system installed on it (even though ones not working)? How do I overcome this so that I can access the old data on the corrupted drive whilst logged in on the new one?
Now I have data on the old corrupt drive (on partitions D,E & F) and was hoping that I would somehow be able to access that when logged into XP with the new drive and copy it across. However now I cannot even see the corrupted drive in bios or in computer management in XP.
Currently XP takes longer to load when both drives are connected (sata 1 new drive & sata 2 corrupted drive), however when I disconnect sata 2 then XP loads much quicker.
So is my problem caused due to both drives having a boot partition with an operating system installed on it (even though ones not working)? How do I overcome this so that I can access the old data on the corrupted drive whilst logged in on the new one?