Help - slave drive converted to RAW

[Stephen]

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Hi

I've done a stupid thing.

I installed another hard drive (not new) as a slave.

Everything was fine - but it still had XP OS and loads of files.

So I removed everything, still the drive was OK.

There was still around 6GB used space left on the drive,
so I FORMATTED it - it told me that I would be removing
a partition and in doing so will remove the data.

Well that's what I wanted - so I clicked YES.

Now I have ended up with a hard drive which will not allow
me access because it is NOT Formatted. But the system will
not allow me to format it because the drive is a RAW drive.

I have tried formatting from XP Disk Management, and from
the command prompt C:\ DIR G; . . . . but the drive is not recognised.

I thought formatting a hard drive was like a floppy - that it would
maintain whatever it needed to work.

Does anyone know how to reinstall the system files that are
apparently required to get this SLAVE disk going again.

I have got a OME XP Recovery Disk - and XP SP 2 disc.

Thanks a lot - Stephen

 

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"Stephen" <stephen@knight04july.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I've done a stupid thing.
>
> I installed another hard drive (not new) as a slave.
>
> Everything was fine - but it still had XP OS and loads of files.
>
> So I removed everything, still the drive was OK.
>
> There was still around 6GB used space left on the drive,
> so I FORMATTED it - it told me that I would be removing
> a partition and in doing so will remove the data.
>
> Well that's what I wanted - so I clicked YES.
>
> Now I have ended up with a hard drive which will not allow
> me access because it is NOT Formatted. But the system will
> not allow me to format it because the drive is a RAW drive.
>
> I have tried formatting from XP Disk Management, and from
> the command prompt C:\ DIR G; . . . . but the drive is not recognised.
>
> I thought formatting a hard drive was like a floppy - that it would
> maintain whatever it needed to work.

Not if you removed the partition(s). These are critical.

>
> Does anyone know how to reinstall the system files that are
> apparently required to get this SLAVE disk going again.
>
> I have got a OME XP Recovery Disk - and XP SP 2 disc.
>
> Thanks a lot - Stephen

So, you removed the partition and did not recreate one?

In that case, use diskpart or the disk management utility to create a new
partition, assign it a letter, and format it - in that order.

HTH
-pk