XP HD Problem

kacee

Hi,

I have a friend how is having a problem with his HD. His XP system had 1 internal HD that was partitioned into 2. It was named C: and The system crashed and could not get it to run at all, not even in safe mode. Decided the best way to go was to reinstall the whole system on a new HD. This went OK.

Now he has attached the old HD as Slave and can access the old C: drive, now L: but cannot access the old Drive now M:

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

BTW it is XP Home.

dagger_meerkat

If he can access the C drive, he should be able to access the other partition. It shows up as M: but he can't access it? What happens when he double clicks on the partition? Get a data recovery program to pull off any important data off the second partition just in case.

kacee

Disk Management is showing 0 bytes size and 0 bytes free.

It is also showing that the partition that connot be accessed is not an NTFS drive, if this makes any sense.

dagger_meerkat

Sounds like a faulty partition table.

You may use this:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

And please read

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

A partition re-write will most probably let your friend re-access his data ; I cannot guarantee this, the symptoms sound like a partition table error, but this is what I would do first. Also, tell your friend to move the data files he needs or has on L: drive to the new hdd and then only use this program.

If he feels uncomfortable using this program, please seek additional help from someone technically qualified or you could always come on here and ask for help, although we will need screenshots.

totalsolutions

Absolulely NO partition rewrite. Don't do it.

The "d" drive has permissions set against it. NTFS is just one filing system amonst many. Showing zero as a precaution prevent unathorised access.

What error message do you get?

kacee

I have just been in contact with hime again, it seems he was a little confused last night, after getting everything going again. It is the old C: Drive that he cannot access, not the drive.

As for error messages it the drive was not readable.

totalsolutions

Hi, not readable covers quite a lot. I might not plug it in to make it not readable. Thats not info at all. Get it back before he damages it.

Browntoa

has he remembered to set it to "slave" instead of "Master" if its and older IDE (PATA) drive not the newer SATA type drives