nellie2 Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 A friend bought themselves a new hard drive, formatted it and loaded the os on... having a few probs there but that is another story. The main problem is the second hdd.... which was always a slave, and has all the info and important stuff on. All of a sudden it won't play ball. Nothing has been done to it but now Windows takes and age to load, the drive can be seen in the bios and in device manager.... everything looks ok but it isn't in my computer.I put the drive in my machine too and am having the same problems.. I changed it to secondary master but that didn't change anything.......... any ideas?? :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 What file system Nellie ? Has it been password protected some how ?Plenty of utilities on Ultimate Boot CD to check out the drive itself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 NTFS I think... no it hasn't been password protected.... will try the ultimate boot doo dah now thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Nellie, this sounds like it is possibly a security rights issue.What Os was on the machine previously, and what os have you now put on it?Does the drive appear listed in Disk Management (under admin tools > computer management) and if so what does it say about it?As you state you think it is formatted in NTFS, I am assuming it used to be either 2k or XP, have you tried to recreate an administrator account on the new setup, with exactly the same name and password. Not sure if that will work, but worth a try.I think you may have to use something like NTFSDos, and copy the data off the drive, then reformat it, before copying the data back from the new Os.Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 The drive was previously on WXP.... I can't see it in disk management and that is another funny thing, normally when I go into there the info usually pops up straight away but now that I have this hdd attached to my system it took about 30 secs to find and display the disk info!!I haven't tried creating a new acct. Good idea about NTFSDos.... I think there is a link on the forum somewhere for it..... I put it there at some point or other!! :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 try partition magic it worked for craig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdospro.shtmlhttp://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 try partition magic it worked for craig.I tried partition magic.... I got an error messageInt failed: Error 100 partition table is bad :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 its had it then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 You got Drive Image or an equivalent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Yes I have drive image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 DMA settings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 The secondary IDE (where I have it as master at the moment) is set up for DMA if available and current transfer settings are PIO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 I made my bootable cd and had a look for the drive in dos :blink: It wasn't there though!! :(I think it must be knacked!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 sounds as if it's beggared Nellie, have you had a look through ?? Tony's ?? thread where he had probs with a non reading drive ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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