Hard disk too full can not boot problem need help!

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Hi, all:

I have a desktop computer running Windows XP Pro, connect to 2 hard
disks (C: Seagate Model ST360020A, D: DVD drive, E: CDR/W drive, F:
IBM Deskstar model: IC35L060AVER07-0).

The computer is serving as a file server and I guess for some reason
the C drive was totally full, so now I can't boot to C anymore (it
would just give me a big blue screen). I unpluged both drive and
connect both of them (one by one) as "slave" drive to another desktop
PC of mine. Although the desktop PC does recognize both hard disks,
but under XP Pro I can't see these two drives at all. I have tried to
change the hard disk jumpers from slave, to master, to cable select,
but all with the same result. I even downloaded the software
"VirtualLab" (http://www.totalrecall.com/data_recovery_software.html)
which can see my other two drives and went through the diagnostic OK.

My questions are:

1. It seems that the physical drive is working OK, although for some
reason the XP Pro won't give it a logical drive name to map to "My
Computer." Any idea why is that?

2. I'm also running "System Commander 7.0" which is a boot manager, is
my problem related to System Commander? I did check with System
Commander and found there is a option "Drive ignored: [ ]" and made
sure that the [ ] is none (meaning that ALL hard disks should be
"visible" under Windows XP Pro)... Should I maybe temporarily remove
System Commander 7.0 and give it a try? I'm a bit concerned that if I
remove System Commander 7.0, my current working desktop PC will become
un-bootable too...

Any ideas or suggestions about how to diagnostic my two hard disks and
recover my data? Again, the VirtualLab and some other hard disk
diagnostic tools (such as Active S.M.A.R.T trial version) could all
recognize my drives, but when I go to "My Computer" icon I can't see
them show up there...

Thanks!
 
T.T. Lee said:
Hi, all:

I have a desktop computer running Windows XP Pro, connect to 2 hard
disks (C: Seagate Model ST360020A, D: DVD drive, E: CDR/W drive, F:
IBM Deskstar model: IC35L060AVER07-0).

The computer is serving as a file server and I guess for some reason
the C drive was totally full, so now I can't boot to C anymore (it
would just give me a big blue screen). I unpluged both drive and
connect both of them (one by one) as "slave" drive to another desktop
PC of mine. Although the desktop PC does recognize both hard disks,
but under XP Pro I can't see these two drives at all.
Click to expand...

You can't see the 'logical' drives or the physical drive (in disk
management)? What does disk management show you?

Joep
 
Joep said:
You can't see the 'logical' drives or the physical drive (in disk
management)? What does disk management show you?
Click to expand...

Dear Joep:

I can see the "physical" drive from the disk management tool under XP,
but not logical drive, and it seems that the disk management tool can
not identify the file system of the partition neither

thanks!
 
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