Urgent HDD Issue`

[stccrd]

Well, I've got a nice 2gHz P4 with 512MB ram, in a Compaq something or other.

I am trying to put a drive in as a slave to the boot drive. When I turn on the machine, it recognizes the drive in BIOS. It takes FOREVER to load into windows (it gets stuck on the loading screen)...I did a run in Safe Mode, and it stuck on mup.sys. It does load, but after a good period of time passes. Then, windows (xp pro) will not recognize the drive, despite it being noticed by BIOS...

Any ideas what might be causing this, or how to go about fixing it?

The reason for the urgent, is that there is data contained that is very important for the operations of this particular office. And, of course, there are no recent backups.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

[Bovon]

What brand drives are they...and are they jumpered properly?..

[stccrd]

Ok, I tried something else. I got into Windows, and went to Add Hardware. It didn't find it, so I went through the list of hardware already attached. It said the hard drive was there! I double clicked on the entry, and it said the device was working normally.

It shows up in the device manager, but the disk drive doesn't show up at all in My Computer...any ideas?

[stccrd]

The drive it doesn't recognize is a Fujitsu MPC3012AT (or something along those lines)...would the jumpers make a difference in Windows vs showing up in BIOS?

[Bovon]

Originally posted by stccrd
The drive it doesn't recognize is a Fujitsu MPC3012AT (or something along those lines)...would the jumpers make a difference in Windows vs showing up in BIOS? I'm not sure but I think BIOS can find a drive that is attached even if it is not jumpered properly.

Your main drive should be jumpered as master...but be aware that on some brands, this jumper must be relocated if there is a slave attached..or, maybe add another jumper making it 2 jumpers to be a master when there is a slave attached. Then of course, the slave must be jumpered as a slave.

I'm looking at a Western Digital here that will have no jumpers if it is a master and no slave. Add a slave drive, and you must add a jumper to the master.

I suggest that you study both drives and decide on where the jumpers should go for a master drive when there will be a slave attached...then be sure you have the slave jumpered properly as a slave...it may just work then.

[intimidator]

just put the drive with the data on the secondary IDE chain on your test machine. This will eliminate any jumper issue.

This means you will disconnect your cd drives.

boot into windows & go into disk management.........right click on my computer........click manage & then click disk management.

Do you see the drive?

If so you probably either have to make the partition active or make it a logical drive............OR that ROTTEN program Goback is installed on that drive in which case you will have to disable it.

you can also check the disk for errors in disk management & try to repair them.

[stccrd]

Right now the drive in question is a master on the Secondary IDE.

The boot drive is Master on Primary. I've gone into Disk Management, and it doesn't pull up the drive in question. I'm going to try to put it second on the primary IDE and see what happens.

Btw, I don't think GoBack is installed...Roxio (i think that is the company) has never been my cup of tea..

[mrrobotto]

Have you tried putting the jumper on cable select "cs" on both drives? Then put the black connector on the hdd you want master and the gray"center" connector for slave.

[Rocketmech]

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154817