XP Pro won't properly give hard drive info to secondary drive

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boris

Here are the basics:

80Gb System drive, XP Pro just reinstalled
200Gb WD Caviar secondary drive
Promise Technology Ultra T2 controller card

PROBLEM: Disk Management sees the extra drive, but does not give a
volume label (which was there before reinstalling), nor file system
verification, nor accurate count of free space (capacity = free space,
which I know is not right because the drive was properly seen by
another computer yesterday - just to make sure the data was still
there).

SOLUTIONS ATTEMPTED:

1) Have another 200Gb drive (all three, including a 60Gb system drive
which was replaced by the 80Gb listed above, were working fine until
the 60Gb became unstable and was replaced, then reinstall happened),
which is being seen fine. Thought the two of them together on the
controller card were causing problems, but even when removing the
second 200Gb drive and reinstalling again, this WD in particular seems
to have issues being recognized by this installation

2) Attempted to update driver from Promise for the SCSI & RAID
Controller category under which Device Manager is listing it). Would
not allow me to do so.

3) Don't think it's a BIOS issue because the drive is definitely seen
at startup and any updated to the BIOS would have been there before
the Windows reinstall

Have another post here which was answered with suggestion to
"Reinitialize" the drive under disk management, but that option is not
there (at least not in that name). Am hopeful "reinitialize" does not
mean reformat, as the data is definitely there and working, at least
on one machine. So seems to be something with my setup.

Thanks millions for any help. The data on this drive is of extremely
high value to me, so I am looking for any creative method of making
this work.
 
It may sound silly, but have you rechecked the cabling? I was having some
weird things
trying to get a master/slave combination along with a cd drive. After a
lot of trial & error,
my CD was jumpered as master, and the HD was in slave position on the
cable. Also, I had
the main drive(s) connected to the secondary IDE connection on the
motherboard instead
of the primary connection. Correcting these items seemed to help in a lot
of areas.

Good luck!
 
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