Trying to recover 2 disks

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Don Awalt

HI all, thanks for the help --

I have an XP system with 2 IDE drives. The system appears to have been
zapped, the mother board is bad I suspect. I have taken everything out but
the motherboard and floppy, and booting to MSDOS even dies in about 5
seconds.

My last backup was about 3 days ago so I would like to recover the last 3
days if I can. I took the 2 IDE disks and one by one, put them on my server
(which has 2 SCSI disks). To simplify, I just kept the 'C" SCSI disk online,
so when I go into disk admin I see the C drive and an un-named second drive
pronounced "healthy", but it has no driver letter, file system, and it's
status is 100% disk space free. I cannot do anything to the drive, ie set a
drive letter etc. I tried changing to Dynamic Drive and nothing happens -
it's reported as a Basic drive.

The IDE drive was on an XP system at current rev, I moved it to Windows 2003
Server Enterprise Edition. Is there something I need to do to the disk to
see it? I tried this with both IDE drives, and several combinations. I
currently have the old D drive from XP in there thinking there was a drive
name conflict (but I don't think that's the case).

Any info on how to read the drive would be greatly appreciated. It's like
Server 2K3 knows it's there and is good but it can't get to it...
 
PS - status is Healthy (Active) the other SCSI drive is Healthy (System). Even though it's healthy I can't get to it and none of the help is applicable...
 
If no one has any ideas is there another NG I should be asking this in?

Thanks for your advice!
PS - status is Healthy (Active) the other SCSI drive is Healthy (System). Even though it's healthy I can't get to it and none of the help is applicable...
 
If you have a workable solution for the OP that I don't have experience with
that is great! I hope it resolves the issue.

No cheap shots are required however to do that! I never claimed to be an
expert or the last word in HD maintenance... just shared my experience.

Good Luck to the OP,

Len
 
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