Secondary Hard drive info

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In my old computer I had two seperate physical hard drives. The main drive I
used for all of my programs. The secondary drive I used for all of my
pictures, music, etc. I ended up buying a new motherboard and some other new
parts, so I had to format my main drive, which is no big deal. Now i have my
secondary drive which I cant retrieve any of the information off of. The
device manager can see the drive, but I cant access it. I ran the WD
diagnostics utility, and it wants to format the drive. I really need some of
the information off of the secondary drive before I reformat it. Is there
anyway i can do this?

Thanks ~~ Scott
 
Did you format the primary drive in FAT32 ?
Is your second drive formatted NTFS ?
If so, the Fat32 drive cannot read the second drive formatted in NTFS.
You need to format the primary drive NTFS also.
 
Skeet13 said:
In my old computer I had two seperate physical hard drives. The main
drive I
used for all of my programs. The secondary drive I used for all of my
pictures, music, etc. I ended up buying a new motherboard and some
other new
parts, so I had to format my main drive, which is no big deal. Now i
have my
secondary drive which I cant retrieve any of the information off of.
The
device manager can see the drive, but I cant access it. I ran the WD
diagnostics utility, and it wants to format the drive. I really need
some of
the information off of the secondary drive before I reformat it. Is
there anyway i can do this?

Thanks ~~ Scott
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What happens when you try? If you get an "access denied" error message,
you just need to take ownership of the files. See:

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

If this doesn't help, then please post back with the text of any error
messages. Also, please check your jumpering on both drives just to be
sure you did this correctly.

Malke
 
Both drives should be in NFTS format. The jumpers are in the correct
position also. I dont get any error messages because i cant even access the
drive from my computer

Malke said:
Skeet13 said:
In my old computer I had two seperate physical hard drives. The main
drive I
used for all of my programs. The secondary drive I used for all of my
pictures, music, etc. I ended up buying a new motherboard and some
other new
parts, so I had to format my main drive, which is no big deal. Now i
have my
secondary drive which I cant retrieve any of the information off of.
The
device manager can see the drive, but I cant access it. I ran the WD
diagnostics utility, and it wants to format the drive. I really need
some of
the information off of the secondary drive before I reformat it. Is
there anyway i can do this?

Thanks ~~ Scott
Click to expand...

What happens when you try? If you get an "access denied" error message,
you just need to take ownership of the files. See:

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

If this doesn't help, then please post back with the text of any error
messages. Also, please check your jumpering on both drives just to be
sure you did this correctly.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"
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Also....would it tell me in my bios what format the drives are in? if so I
could verify that they are the same..

Malke said:
Skeet13 said:
In my old computer I had two seperate physical hard drives. The main
drive I
used for all of my programs. The secondary drive I used for all of my
pictures, music, etc. I ended up buying a new motherboard and some
other new
parts, so I had to format my main drive, which is no big deal. Now i
have my
secondary drive which I cant retrieve any of the information off of.
The
device manager can see the drive, but I cant access it. I ran the WD
diagnostics utility, and it wants to format the drive. I really need
some of
the information off of the secondary drive before I reformat it. Is
there anyway i can do this?

Thanks ~~ Scott
Click to expand...

What happens when you try? If you get an "access denied" error message,
you just need to take ownership of the files. See:

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

If this doesn't help, then please post back with the text of any error
messages. Also, please check your jumpering on both drives just to be
sure you did this correctly.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"
Click to expand...
 
No, the bios should be set to auto detect (hd's)
Was the data hd previously prepared with any other than winxp format tools?
eg tools supplied by the hd manu?
What does Disk Management show for the drive?, assuming thats not what you
meant by Device Manager.

Skeet13 said:
Also....would it tell me in my bios what format the drives are in? if so I
could verify that they are the same..

Malke said:
Skeet13 said:
In my old computer I had two seperate physical hard drives. The main
drive I
used for all of my programs. The secondary drive I used for all of my
pictures, music, etc. I ended up buying a new motherboard and some
other new
parts, so I had to format my main drive, which is no big deal. Now i
have my
secondary drive which I cant retrieve any of the information off of.
The
device manager can see the drive, but I cant access it. I ran the WD
diagnostics utility, and it wants to format the drive. I really need
some of
the information off of the secondary drive before I reformat it. Is
there anyway i can do this?

Thanks ~~ Scott
Click to expand...

What happens when you try? If you get an "access denied" error message,
you just need to take ownership of the files. See:

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

If this doesn't help, then please post back with the text of any error
messages. Also, please check your jumpering on both drives just to be
sure you did this correctly.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"
Click to expand...
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