Disk Management reports the following (assuming I'm looking at the right
screen):
Volume:
(is blank)
Layout:
Simple
Type:
Basic
File System:
(is blank)
Status:
Healthy (EISA Configuation).
Also:
"Disk 0
55.00 GB
Online"
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Jumpers have been configured for both cable select and master/slave. Same
problem in both configurations.
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I don't recall if the drive was set up using any overlay software... But if
memory serves, I swapped it into one of my xp machines and formatted it (I
think I was having issues getting 2k to do it).
-Q
"Rick Rogers" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple of things to check:
>
> - How does disk manager (diskmgmt.msc) report the space on the drive? Tried
> importing it?
> - Is the jumper set correctly?
> - Was the drive originally set up with drive overlay software?
>
> This latter one may be a problem, as it may require use of similar to regain
> access to it without destroying data.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "QContinueum" <QContinueum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> >I recently bought a new PC. Vista came preinstalled. I pulled my data HDD
> >out
> > of my old windows 2000 box. It's formatted as either ntfs or fat32, I
> > forget
> > which.
> >
> > Anyway, my BIOS sees the drive, as does Vista. Sort of. The drive and its
> > partition show up in Disk Management, but upon right clicking on the
> > partition am only given the 'Help' option. Nothing else shows up. Vista
> > also
> > seems to have not assigned a volume name or letter to the drive.
> >
> > Disk Management doesn't see a file system on the disk, even though the
> > 'Status' is listed as Healthy.
> >
> > Anyone have any thoughts or need more information?
>
>