XP won't recognise a functioning, formatted NTFS HDD

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Hi, I just installed windows XP home on a fresh format of
my C: drive that previously had windows 2000 installed.
However, it (XP) only notices my C: and not my second D:
onto which I had backed up all my stuff. Disk management
recognises the device as foreign, even though only a
couple of hours ago win2K classed it as a perfectly
working second hard drive?? I have updated it via windows-
update, and checked the Faq and googled my way around to
no avail. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for any help.
Ta
 
Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE.
Click on DISK MANAGEMENT and in the lower right-hand
window, right-click on your second drive and select INITIALIZE DISK.


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Nicholas

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| Hi, I just installed windows XP home on a fresh format of
| my C: drive that previously had windows 2000 installed.
| However, it (XP) only notices my C: and not my second D:
| onto which I had backed up all my stuff. Disk management
| recognises the device as foreign, even though only a
| couple of hours ago win2K classed it as a perfectly
| working second hard drive?? I have updated it via windows-
| update, and checked the Faq and googled my way around to
| no avail. Does anyone have any ideas?
|
| Thanks for any help.
| Ta
 
Nope, didn't work. No such option appears :/

It recognises it as a foreign disk, not a windows
partition. It only gives me the option to convert it to a
basic disk, however that will destroy the data on it! The
second disk was used to backup my files, however XP seems
to not like it as much as 2000 :) I've had a fiddle in the
registry, and have tried bootdisk.com, changing the disk
to PIO mode etc. Nothing works. If there is a program you
could suggest that would be great. Or any other options.
 
-----Original Message-----
Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE.
Click on DISK MANAGEMENT and in the lower right-hand
window, right-click on your second drive and select INITIALIZE DISK.


--
Nicholas

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| Hi, I just installed windows XP home on a fresh format of
| my C: drive that previously had windows 2000 installed.
| However, it (XP) only notices my C: and not my second D:
| onto which I had backed up all my stuff. Disk management
| recognises the device as foreign, even though only a
| couple of hours ago win2K classed it as a perfectly
| working second hard drive?? I have updated it via windows-
| update, and checked the Faq and googled my way around to
| no avail. Does anyone have any ideas?
|
| Thanks for any help.
| Ta
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I have the same problem with a second FAT32 drive.
Windows XP Home used to recognise it, but after a crash,
and reinstallation of XP, won't anymore. I do not have
the option to initialize the drive, as suggested above.
The ONLY option given to me, is to remove the partition
on that drive, which I hesitate to do, since I need to
salvage the files on that perfectly functioning Win98SE
drive.Booted to the secondary drive, Win98 doesn't see my
CD drives anymore, and Norton's says the drive is a
logical drive, with no physical characteristics. ?????
Booted to my primary Win XP Home drive, I can see my
secondary drive in Device Manager, but can't get
properties on it. Norton says the drive has no FAT. I
need to be able to see both drives so I can transfer the
data from the secondary drive onto my primary XP drive.
Please reply to my e-mail, as I don't get in here often.
Thanks, Tony - (e-mail address removed)
 
I had this problem as well with a drive formatted by 2000. Apparently the NTFS
from 2000 is slightly different from XP (or possibly some of the security
features are blocking XP from reading the "foreign" Win2000 partition.

Do you have a copy of Ghost 2003? It can read and write NTFS partitions. One
suggestion would be to use the boot floppy of Ghost to create a image of the
second drive onto the first. Reboot back in XP and reformat the drive so XP is
once again happy with it (of course you would want to make sure the image of
that second drive is readable by the Ghost Explorer). Once Xp is happy with the
second drive, you can you the Ghost Explorer to extract all files back to the
second drive so all data is intact.

Paul
 
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