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Internal Hard Drives.......
Hello All,
I have an ASUS p5n-32 SLI mother board and 2 x ASUS 7800GT Video cards. I have 2 gig of ram and 3 SATA 16mb internal hard drives 2 x 320 gig and 1 x 240 gig. I have formated one of the 320 gig hard drives just to install Vista on it and it has all gone fine. Set up without any hitches, the remaining two hard drives had XP Pro on it. I do not want to loose any data on the two hard drives. My question is that the two remaining hard drives I can see but cannot access. Can someone help me see all the programs and data on the two hard drives! Scott |
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On Feb 4, 3:23 am, Scruffyy
wrote: Hello All, I have an ASUS p5n-32 SLI mother board and 2 x ASUS 7800GT Video cards. I have 2 gig of ram and 3 SATA 16mb internal hard drives 2 x 320 gig and 1 x 240 gig. I have formated one of the 320 gig hard drives just to install Vista on it and it has all gone fine. Set up without any hitches, the remaining two hard drives had XP Pro on it. I do not want to loose any data on the two hard drives. My question is that the two remaining hard drives I can see but cannot access. Can someone help me see all the programs and data on the two hard drives! Scott I built a new system and installed Vista on it. I am having various problems with it so I installed XP on a second drive (old 27 GB Maxtor) to test it under XP. When I boot into Vista, I can see and access the XP drive without any problems. So I have to conclude Vista shouldn't normaly have any problem with drive setup under XP. Something must be different with your drives or how they are set up. What do you mean by that you can "see" the hard drive. Can you see them in the BIOS? Windows Disk Manager? Windows Explorer? If you can see them under Windows Explorer, but can't open a drive and view its contents, then it could have something to do with windows security or encryption. Did you enable any special security features on those drives under XP? If they aren't visible under Windows Explorer, can you see them under the Disk manager? If so do they have formated partitions on them? How are they formated? If you can only see them in the BIOS and not in windows explorer, then there's something strange with the drives. What kind of drives are they? Could they be so old and obsolete that Vista doesn't like them. In addition, if either of the drive have XP instaled on them, try booting up them up in XP. You could also try installing XP on them. George |
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Scruffyy wrote:
Hello All, I have an ASUS p5n-32 SLI mother board and 2 x ASUS 7800GT Video cards. I have 2 gig of ram and 3 SATA 16mb internal hard drives 2 x 320 gig and 1 x 240 gig. I have formated one of the 320 gig hard drives just to install Vista on it and it has all gone fine. Set up without any hitches, the remaining two hard drives had XP Pro on it. I do not want to loose any data on the two hard drives. My question is that the two remaining hard drives I can see but cannot access. Can someone help me see all the programs and data on the two hard drives! Scott Have you used Vista's Disk-Management Console to assign drive letters to the logical drives on the other HDs? I installed Vista to dual-boot with my current XP installation and found that I had to assign the old drive letters within Vista before those drives would show up in Windows Explorer. |