Need Help With HDD's

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Brad Mcallister

Ok guys, here is one for you.

I just upgraded from 2000 to XP Home. I had two HDDs.
When I upgraded to XP it would not reconize my 2nd drive
(which is a Western Digital 100G), there is about 70G of
data that I need to get. Ok, what I have done so far,
checked BIOS, BIOS sees the drive no problem. Also the
jumpers look correct from the diagram on the HDD. When I
get into XP it is not reconized. When I go into disk
Management it sees the disk, but says Disk 1 Dynamic and
then below that it says Foreign. I have no idea how to
fix this. I have checked on WD's website and after
looking for some kind of drivers they said contact
microsoft. So hopefully someone can help me. Thanks for
helping...
 
One cannot upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Home.
Only Windows XP Pro can upgrade over Windows 2000.
You'll need to perform a "clean install".

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Windows XP Supported Upgrade Paths
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292607&Product=winxp


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| Ok guys, here is one for you.
|
| I just upgraded from 2000 to XP Home. I had two HDDs.
| When I upgraded to XP it would not reconize my 2nd drive
| (which is a Western Digital 100G), there is about 70G of
| data that I need to get. Ok, what I have done so far,
| checked BIOS, BIOS sees the drive no problem. Also the
| jumpers look correct from the diagram on the HDD. When I
| get into XP it is not reconized. When I go into disk
| Management it sees the disk, but says Disk 1 Dynamic and
| then below that it says Foreign. I have no idea how to
| fix this. I have checked on WD's website and after
| looking for some kind of drivers they said contact
| microsoft. So hopefully someone can help me. Thanks for
| helping...
 
This happened to me also, XP is strange in this manner it
seems to want to recognise disks in a particular way. Do
not format or reinstall until you have tried my (and any
other suggestions)

This is what I configured originally 2 hdd and 2 cdroms.
I had to reconfigure so both hdd were on the master
channels of the ide primary and secondary.
give it a shot.
 
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