HD 'D' not working after installing Win XP (HD = RAW ?)

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Carlos el Aleman

Installed Win XP on Drive 'C' which was empty. Prior to XP
install I moved all data from C to D. Then installed XP on
Drive C... All ok until I displayed Drive D. NO DATA. XP
says dive is not formatted.... Why ? I have got 100Gig of
Data on it. Any chance to recover ? HELP.....
 
You might have installed XP using the Fat32 option instead of NTFS. If
that's the case and if the other drive is formatted NTFS then the
reinstalled system can't see the other drive. You need to reinstall XP as
though it were a new install and this time when you format that drive, use
NTFS. Don't format from a Windows 9x boot floppy, do it during XP setup as
follows:
Boot with the XP CD in the drive. When you see the message on the boot
screen to "Press any key in order to boot from the CD," do so.

After loading drivers and files, you should be taken to a screen with
the following:

To Setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
To Repair a Windows XP Installation using Recovery Console press R.
To Quit setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.

In your case, press ENTER.

Agree to the License agreement by pressing F8.

You will then be taken to a screen with two options.

To repair the selected Windows XP installation press R.
To continue installing a fresh copy of Windows XP without repairing,
press ESC.

This will bring you to a partition map where you
can delete, create and format partitions.
Select the drive you wish to format, delete the partition, then create a new
partition, format as desired and continue with XP installation.

If this resolves the issue, check out the third line in my signature. Hard
drives crash, hard drives fail and if yours does, then what happen to that
100GB of data?
 
I don't know what's wrong with the OPs D drive but it's the OS that reads
the disk, not the file system and XP surely knows what NTFS is. Why would
it matter if XP was installed on a FAT32 disk, I would expect it to still be
able to read the other drive regardless of the file system used.
 
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You might have installed XP using the Fat32 option instead of NTFS.
If that's the case and if the other drive is formatted NTFS then the
reinstalled system can't see the other drive.
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Michael, I'm not sure what you're saying here, but if it's that
an XP system installed on a FAT32 drive can't see a second NTFS
drive, that is *not* true.
 
Ken, I'm not saying that is positively the answer and you are certainly
correct, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. However, I've run into a few
situations in which this has occurred. I believe, that it may be a result
of some permissions issue. Yes, XP should be able to read both but because
I've been able to resolve this previously by converting the drive to NTFS, I
believe security may be a factor.

In a network situation you can make changes in the network configuration
and, if necessary grant additional permissions. But depending upon which
version of XP is installed, Pro or Home Edition, permissions become a
tougher nut to crack. Further, I don't think a Fat32 partition could take
ownership and since this is the system drive, I thought it would be easier
to reinstall XP on an NTFS formatted partition.

In the future, I'll try to be a little more clear about this but I'm still
trying to figure out why this has come up a few times recently and changing
to NTFS made the difference. The only thing I could figure was something in
XP's security.
 
Please see my response to Ken in this thread. I've seen this issue come up
a few times before. Granted, sometimes the user has inadvertently deleted
the partition in which case, the game is over. But I've had a few
situations come up wherein I had the user change the system partition to
NTFS to match the other partitions and for some reason it allowed them to
see the other partitions again. My guess is, as I opined to Ken, it may be
related to security or permissions in some fashion.
 
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