NEW MACHINE + OLD DRIVE = MANY, MANY PROBLEMS

[Guest]

Well, here is the deal, on my old machine I had two Maxtor drives 1x40gig and 1x80gig, running Win XP Pro installed on the 40 gig drive. I mainly used the 80 gig drive for storage and there were just few programs installed on it. Then I bought a new computer with a brand new 80 gig Maxtor identical to my old one. I think the model is Diamond Max 9 6Y080L0. It's a 80 gig, 2 Mb cash, UDMA ATA 133 drive. So the new system worked ok with it and one day I decided that I need most of the info that was on my old machine and tried to just move the old 80 gig to the new machine. I set it up as a primary slave and gave it a try. BIOS recognized it and when Windows booted I was unpleasantly surprised. Windows was recognizing the drive, it was showing it in the devise manager, BUT Windows was telling me that the drive is not formated and needs to format it. Pardon my language, but WTF. The drive was formated in the NTFS in the old machine, I am using the same Windows installation again with NTFS on this machine, why the f**k is Windows screwing around with me??

I have around 70 gigs of valuable info on the old drive and certainly don't want to have to burn it all to CDs in order to transfer it. So that's my case, if you have anything in mind as to what might be causing this nasty problem, PLEASE share it with me, I will greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks in advance

Ic

PS: I checked Disk Manager and the second(old) drive is shown as a slave ie. Disk 1, but under the File system tab there is nothing and both the new and old drives are shown as primary partitions. Tried using Powermax, but as my Motherboard has a nVidia chip set up, Powermax did not work. It appears that Powermax doesn't work with Mbs with nVidia chips (at least that's what Maxtor tech support told me, and yea, they were clueless as to what might have happened as well)

 

[Jo Bo]

Well, here is the deal, on my old machine I had two Maxtor drives 1x40gig

and 1x80gig, running Win XP Pro installed on the 40 gig drive. I mainly used
the 80 gig drive for storage and there were just few programs installed on
it. Then I bought a new computer with a brand new 80 gig Maxtor identical to
my old one. I think the model is Diamond Max 9 6Y080L0. It's a 80 gig, 2 Mb
cash, UDMA ATA 133 drive. So the new system worked ok with it and one day I
decided that I need most of the info that was on my old machine and tried to
just move the old 80 gig to the new machine. I set it up as a primary slave
and gave it a try. BIOS recognized it and when Windows booted I was
unpleasantly surprised. Windows was recognizing the drive, it was showing it
in the devise manager, BUT Windows was telling me that the drive is not
formated and needs to format it. Pardon my language, but WTF. The drive was
formated in the NTFS in the old machine, I am using the same Windows
installation again with NTFS on this machine, why the f**k is Windows
screwing around with me???

I have around 70 gigs of valuable info on the old drive and certainly

don't want to have to burn it all to CDs in order to transfer it. So that's
my case, if you have anything in mind as to what might be causing this nasty
problem, PLEASE share it with me, I will greatly appreciate it!!!

Thanks in advance.

Ico

PS: I checked Disk Manager and the second(old) drive is shown as a slave

ie. Disk 1, but under the File system tab there is nothing and both the new
and old drives are shown as primary partitions. Tried using Powermax, but as
my Motherboard has a nVidia chip set up, Powermax did not work. It appears
that Powermax doesn't work with Mbs with nVidia chips (at least that's what
Maxtor tech support told me, and yea, they were clueless as to what might
have happened as well)

If "power max" is like the old "max Blast" that's your problem. It's purpose
it to allow large drives to be used with old bios/motherboards that can't
handle large drives. It tricks windows and now windows with a new board is
tricking you. Put your old drive in with your old motherboard and burn your
data to cd. Then format your old drive in your new pc and be happy.

Jo Bo

 

[Bob Harris]

Fisrt, verify that the old drivew can be seen by the BIOS, during the POST.
Assuming that it can, then boot into XP and use the "disk management" tool
to see what disks and paritions you have. This tool can see even raw or
unformatted disks. Assuming that it sees the drive, try to use it to assign
a letter to the drive. (Right click on a parition on the drive and try to
assign/change the drive letter.) If a letter can be assigned, reboot and
windows explorer will probably see the drive.

Well, here is the deal, on my old machine I had two Maxtor drives 1x40gig

and 1x80gig, running Win XP Pro installed on the 40 gig drive. I mainly used
the 80 gig drive for storage and there were just few programs installed on
it. Then I bought a new computer with a brand new 80 gig Maxtor identical to
my old one. I think the model is Diamond Max 9 6Y080L0. It's a 80 gig, 2 Mb
cash, UDMA ATA 133 drive. So the new system worked ok with it and one day I
decided that I need most of the info that was on my old machine and tried to
just move the old 80 gig to the new machine. I set it up as a primary slave
and gave it a try. BIOS recognized it and when Windows booted I was
unpleasantly surprised. Windows was recognizing the drive, it was showing it
in the devise manager, BUT Windows was telling me that the drive is not
formated and needs to format it. Pardon my language, but WTF. The drive was
formated in the NTFS in the old machine, I am using the same Windows
installation again with NTFS on this machine, why the f**k is Windows
screwing around with me???

I have around 70 gigs of valuable info on the old drive and certainly

don't want to have to burn it all to CDs in order to transfer it. So that's
my case, if you have anything in mind as to what might be causing this nasty
problem, PLEASE share it with me, I will greatly appreciate it!!!

Thanks in advance.

Ico

PS: I checked Disk Manager and the second(old) drive is shown as a slave

ie. Disk 1, but under the File system tab there is nothing and both the new
and old drives are shown as primary partitions. Tried using Powermax, but as
my Motherboard has a nVidia chip set up, Powermax did not work. It appears
that Powermax doesn't work with Mbs with nVidia chips (at least that's what
Maxtor tech support told me, and yea, they were clueless as to what might
have happened as well)