reinstalling old hard drive to take some pictures of ti

[chrismac]

Hi , I have a old hard drive that I never took the photos of before i had an upgraded one installed, i also had a processor put in, I have been looking inside the tower and connected the old hard drive with the new one the computer knows its there but i can not access it, if i disconnect the new drive the computer wont start up, any help would be great. thanks Chris

[Stefan]

Have you set the jumpers on the new drive to "master with slave present" and the old one to "slave" ?
What do you mean by "can't access it"?
I presume you run windows, is it not shown in windows explorer? If not, how do you know that "the computer knows it's there" ?

[dx100uk]

yep i'd guess jumper issues too

dx'

[chrismac]

Hi, thanks jumpers set on new ,one old reinstalled need no jumpers to be slave its a seagate driver, when i go to my computer local disc c is there when i go to properties then hardware it has both drive numbers there but i dont know how to get in to old drive to get the photos of

[dx100uk]

you should see more than one local drive
D: will be your DVD/CD

are any other listed?

dx

[chrismac]

yes all the others are there its just the 2nd hard drive thats hiding

[dx100uk]

ok how ok with this stuff are you

if i say check in device manageer to see if its listed know how?

dx

[chrismac]

yes i have it

[dx100uk]

ok
right click my computer

manage

then disk management

what is it status? does it have a drive letter assigned?

if it is listed there right click it in the top box and select explore

if not check all your other drives are ok.

you might still have jumper wrong.

dx

[chrismac]

sorry for the delay under the added drive it has , healthy but unknown partition ?

[chrismac]

it has no letter assigned to it just TMQ01T4 , file system on disc c is NTFS file system on other is FAT32

[dx100uk]

ok sounds like its gone hidden ntfs partition

this is not for windows [as succh]

but this thread gives answers
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1067269196
dx

[dx100uk]

ok last posts crossed
might not be that if its FAT32 but could be drive letter issue as in the thread give

let me know.

so just to be clear.
you only have the two HDD's new & old ?

dx

[chrismac]

yes thats correct, do i need to convert the fats 32 to ntfs i found a command prompt but not sure where to put it you might hopefully know better what to do if anything with it, it says go to the command prompt and execute the command C:\>CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs, C: being the drive being converted ,have you seen this before will it help.

[dx100uk]

unless its got a drive letter you cant convert it!

2nd bit to clear up

are these IDE or sata?

if IDE and these drive on the same lead

i'd suggest you put your old drive on spare connector on your dvd/cd IDE ribbon as slave.

get it off the same lead as the primary [new] drive

this could be where your issue lies

around till 2am

so i'll stick with it.

dx

[chrismac]

I am beat thanks fo your help

[dx100uk]

hey this is sortable

have you done as above?

dx

[chrismac]

I have a dvd and a cd drive also the original dvd drive stopped playing cds, so i added a cd drive , this morning i unpluged the dvd drive and used that ribbon to connect to the hard disc, which is ide i think, thats the letters i saw coming up as the computer was starting up

[dx100uk]

can you try something for me.

disconnect everything from one IDE ribbon so it has nothing on it.

run the pc
let it go thru what it wants too and once it has settled shut it down.

now make your old HDD a master on its jumpers.
connect it to the end connector on the vacant ribbon.

and restart.

log in and pop into disk manager.

does it have a drive letter now and if you right click and select open can you see the files?

if not, what is it saying aboutthe drive like it did before [healthy but unknown partition etc]

dx

[chrismac]

removed the 2 hdd s from the ribbon left the disc drives connected they are on a sepreate ribbon was this correct, started computer came up with a black screen telling me what was connected in primary and secondery places, reconected old hdd as master same black screen, sec. master disc LBA,ATA 100 38495MB with the message on bottem left corner verifying DMI pool data boot from cd failure

so could not asccess the computer

i dont understand why when this was the original drive out the machine it wont work, has it been modified by the person who removed it