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2nd Internal Not working
I have just installed Vista Home Premium and my second internal HD won't
work. The HD worked in the previous installation of XP Pro and from a Live CD version of Linux. According to the Computer Manager, the drive needs to be formatted before it can be used. I dont want to format it becuase it has all my mp3s and photos on. Any suggestions |
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2nd Internal Not working
Copy the files to another location and then repair the drive.
-- Regards, Richard Urban MVP Microsoft Windows Shell/User "JoeRV007" wrote in message news I have just installed Vista Home Premium and my second internal HD won't work. The HD worked in the previous installation of XP Pro and from a Live CD version of Linux. According to the Computer Manager, the drive needs to be formatted before it can be used. I dont want to format it becuase it has all my mp3s and photos on. Any suggestions |
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2nd Internal Not working
Thanks for that. Unfortunately, its not really possible. My windows HD is
only 20gb and my storage HD is 80gb and is almost full. I have just checked this and according to Windows Computer Management Disk Managment, my other Hard Drive is a Dynamic disk. I have never heard of that before. Can anyone help? |
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2nd Internal Not working
A basic disk is the default mode. A dynamic disk is created by choice or by
accident. If you try to convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk you will loose everything - guaranteed. It is likely "because" the disk is a dynamic disk that you cant see under the new operating system. You only hope, at this point, is to do what I first said. You MUST copy the information to another drive, even if you have to beg, borrow or steal it. You would do this while having the hard drive connected to a computer that is using the same operating system as was used when the files were saved to the drive. Then you would put the drive back in your present computer and delete all partitions that are currently present. You would then create a new partition and format the same as NTFS. You want the drive to end up as a basic disk once again. -- Regards, Richard Urban MVP Microsoft Windows Shell/User "JoeRV007" wrote in message ... Thanks for that. Unfortunately, its not really possible. My windows HD is only 20gb and my storage HD is 80gb and is almost full. I have just checked this and according to Windows Computer Management Disk Managment, my other Hard Drive is a Dynamic disk. I have never heard of that before. Can anyone help? |
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2nd Internal Not working
Thank you very much for your advice. Seems a bit silly that Vista Premium
wont recognise a drive which was running on an XP Pro O/S just a few days ago and can be read in Linux. What I will do then is boot up in linux, copy over as much to my windows drive as I can, reboot in windows and then burn the stuff to DVD. This will be fun! Thanks for you help. Joe |
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2nd Internal Not working
Did you do a clean install of Vista and was the drive in the machine at the time? It may be an
ownership issue on the drive itself. Do a google for taking ownership of files and folders and see if that helps. -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ "JoeRV007" wrote in message news I have just installed Vista Home Premium and my second internal HD won't work. The HD worked in the previous installation of XP Pro and from a Live CD version of Linux. According to the Computer Manager, the drive needs to be formatted before it can be used. I dont want to format it becuase it has all my mp3s and photos on. Any suggestions |
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2nd Internal Not working
JoeRV007 wrote:
Thank you very much for your advice. Seems a bit silly that Vista Premium wont recognise a drive which was running on an XP Pro O/S just a few days ago and can be read in Linux. What I will do then is boot up in linux, copy over as much to my windows drive as I can, reboot in windows and then burn the stuff to DVD. This will be fun! Important! I'll bet my lunch money that the linux kernel does not yet speak Vista's new flavor of NTFS. Do *not* attempt to write to a Vista NTFS partition from linux or you will wind up in a similar mess. Don't be in a hurry -- be cautious and do your experimenting on test partitions you create for the purpose. Your files will still be there later as long as you don't screw up because you're rushing. |
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2nd Internal Not working
I had XP Pro running previously. It was installed on a 20gb internal hd. I
stored everything else on my internal 80gb hd. I rather stupidly tried to install Knoppix Linux to an external USB HD but accidentally wrote over the master boot record so XP stopped working. I decided that I would get Vista. I bought a copy of the upgrade which meant that I had to reinstall XP and then install Vista but I did set it to do a clean install. The 80gb drive was connected at all times and is the primary drive on the second IDE bus. The only thing I can think of is that when I installed my 2nd drive, for some reason I selected dynamic drive when I formatted it. God knows why I would have done that. Luckily, however, I have a DVD burner and I have been able to access and burn to DVD all the files from the 2nd drive using a Live CD of Knoppix. It just takes a long time to burn 78gb to DVD at 4x. Thanks everyone for your help. Joe "David Vair" wrote: Did you do a clean install of Vista and was the drive in the machine at the time? It may be an ownership issue on the drive itself. Do a google for taking ownership of files and folders and see if that helps. -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ "JoeRV007" wrote in message news I have just installed Vista Home Premium and my second internal HD won't work. The HD worked in the previous installation of XP Pro and from a Live CD version of Linux. According to the Computer Manager, the drive needs to be formatted before it can be used. I dont want to format it becuase it has all my mp3s and photos on. Any suggestions |