p4pe - NTFS drive doesn't mount

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Avery

In an effort to transfer a large amount of data from another PC to
mine, I've been given a hard drive (Seagate 80gb) formatted as NTFS (I
believe from Windows XP). My PC is a duel boot win2k/win98, P4, 2ghz,
P4Pe. Not including this new drive, I have five installed that are all
FAT32.

I have been unsuccessful in getting my PC to mount the hard drive on
my win2k boot. I've tried setting the drive as both master and slave.
I've tried removing my secondary drives thinking perhaps there were
too many for my PC to handle. This drive is not my C drive. It's only
to transfer data to another of my drives.

My guess is there's some RAID setting I need to make. My worry is that
it will destroy the data on the drive thinking that RAID can only be
installed on a clean drive. Therefore I haven't ventured into
fastBuild.

Also, this NTFS hard drive used to be installed in my PC as FAT32. The
person whose data I needed could not mount this drive on his PC so he
formatted it. I attached the drive back into its old connectors.

Can anyone suggest some steps I might take to get data from this
drive?

Thank you for your help,
~ Avery
 
I cannot see what Raid has got to do with it, unless this is a sata drive.
Is the drive seen in the bios?
 
I can see this drive when I run fastBuild. I guess that's the bios?

RAID may have nothing to do with it. I've been searching for answers
and running into posts that suggest that even a single drive should be
configured as RAID.
 
Raid is only relevent if its a Sata drive, I assume its a std IDE drive.
It should be set as slave.
Is the drive seen in Computer Management (Administrative Tools) ?
It may not have been assigned a drive letter
 
D said:
Raid is only relevent if its a Sata drive, I assume its a std IDE drive.
It should be set as slave.
Is the drive seen in Computer Management (Administrative Tools) ?
It may not have been assigned a drive letter
Click to expand...

I just checked my device manager. The drive does appear there. I still
have not been able to mount it. I don't see where I can assign a drive
letter.
 
I just checked my device manager. The drive does appear there. I still
have not been able to mount it. I don't see where I can assign a drive
letter.
Click to expand...

Also, yes. My drive is a standard IDE drive.
 
I just checked my device manager. The drive does appear there. I still
have not been able to mount it. I don't see where I can assign a drive
letter.
Click to expand...

Also, yes. My drive is a standard IDE drive.
 
I just checked my device manager. The drive does appear there. I still
have not been able to mount it. I don't see where I can assign a drive
letter.
Click to expand...

Yes, my drive is a standard IDE drive.
 
You still don't say whether disk is visible in Computer Management.
This is NOT the same as My Computer/Explore or Hardware Devices
 
D said:
You still don't say whether disk is visible in Computer Management.
This is NOT the same as My Computer/Explore or Hardware Devices
Click to expand...

No. I cannot see the drives in Computer Management.

Sorry for the multiple posts... the groups.google page kept presenting
the error "Internal server error" after two posting attempts.
 
If the drive jumpers are set as slave and it is correctly connected on the
ide cable I can think of no reason why it cannot be seen in Computer
Management.
As a last resort you could try a new ide cable
I find it odd that yr friend could not install this drive without formatting
it, it is possible that the drive is defective. Is it possible top run a
seagate drive checking utility on it?
 
From what I've been reading it's unusual that I can't mount the drive.
I thought it might be a common problem with an easy solution but I'm
finding that this isn't the case. I will try to run a drive check
utility. I found a nice list of utilities here:

http://lists.gpick.com/pages/Hard_Disk_Tools.htm

Thank you for your help and suggestions.

~Avery
 
Success!

I solved the problem. I needed to mount the drive through Control
Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management then Storage > Disk
Management.

"D" you mentioned this before and I looked in the wrong place and did
not see the window you were no doubt referring to.
 
at least alls well, whatever route

Avery said:
Success!

I solved the problem. I needed to mount the drive through Control
Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management then Storage > Disk
Management.

"D" you mentioned this before and I looked in the wrong place and did
not see the window you were no doubt referring to.

(e-mail address removed) (Avery) wrote in message
Click to expand...
 
Stoopid question but . . . have you checked you can see it in the BIOS?
Seagate drives are notorious for not being visible without running a drive
management utility first (Disk Wizard, from memory - available on the
Seagate site - they provide a bootable image file as well as a floppy disk
version). Also, some motherboards will demand that you limit the drive to
32GB and further mess around with the slave/master jumpers before the board
will recognise it. Particularly older mainboards.

Something else that *might* work is try swapping 40-pin and 80-pin cables
and mess with the bios settings for the IDE channels (try different DMA
settings, etc). Also, try messing with the IDE settings in device manager.
Though it sounds to me more like a bios-level problem than a OS problem.

I've seen a number of drives presumed dead that had a variation of this
problem.

My apologies if you've already tried all this or it's not relevant.

TK
 
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