XP recovery won't see slave

fsumichaelg · 01-14-2007, 04:43 PM

Could someone help out here. No place I have looked seems to know...no even HP. I have had a setup with a master and slave drive for over a year. worked great. Two days ago, I opened a bad programs that was loaded with viruses, trojans, etc. locked up everything including internet connection. Finally just did a system restore after unplugging my slave drive to keep from losing anything. Restore went fine, but slave drive is not seen by xp now. Under computer management it shows up there as F-Drive (as it should) and GETDATABACK pulls all the info up just as slave was before recovery. Yet when you click on property tab for slave drive under my computer it says it is empty and asks to format now? I did notice too that under computer management the slave drive does show the files, but is missing the NTFS under the file type.

How can I get XP to see that slave is there?

**TheMatt** · 01-14-2007, 05:03 PM

Hi,

I think you might want to take a look at this link:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...ve-drives.html

fsumichaelg · 01-14-2007, 06:27 PM

Thanks Matt,
It sounds like exactly what is happening to me here. One thing that I didn't see addressed though is if after using partition magic, or whatever partition recovery program, will it do anything to the files on the slave drive? I used the GetDataBack program and everything IS there. $80 to register the program so the files can be copied. (Well worth it considering what is at stake) I am however afraid of messing up the files that are there doing anything not 100% certain. Even thought it might be better to go buy an external HD to transfer the files to not sure that would work though. Maybe just buy a new CPU and trash this one?

**linderman** · 01-14-2007, 08:19 PM

your "beef" is not with the CPU simply buy the serial key code for getdataback and all will be well it will restore your drive and data for use

no external drive purchase necessary

the section about Partition magic is a method to use "if"
you wanted to set up a drive again and now that it cant happen again, or use the hard drive makers drive set-up utilities to partition and format the drive.

for your dillema: simply use the getdataback and live happily ever after

just bear in mind; every time you use that restore CD that will happen so you might want to put a copy of getdataback on a CD disk for such use after your clean installs or recoverys

fsumichaelg · 01-15-2007, 01:12 PM

Used GetDataBack. Was able to xfer everything intact and then reformatted the slave drive for NTFS. Everything back up again and now it is the task of reloading the programs I had. Thanks for everyone's help.

01-14-2007, 04:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
fsumichaelg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3 OS: xp	XP recovery won't see slave Could someone help out here. No place I have looked seems to know...no even HP. I have had a setup with a master and slave drive for over a year. worked great. Two days ago, I opened a bad programs that was loaded with viruses, trojans, etc. locked up everything including internet connection. Finally just did a system restore after unplugging my slave drive to keep from losing anything. Restore went fine, but slave drive is not seen by xp now. Under computer management it shows up there as F-Drive (as it should) and GETDATABACK pulls all the info up just as slave was before recovery. Yet when you click on property tab for slave drive under my computer it says it is empty and asks to format now? I did notice too that under computer management the slave drive does show the files, but is missing the NTFS under the file type. How can I get XP to see that slave is there? Last edited by fsumichaelg; 01-14-2007 at 04:45 PM.

01-14-2007, 05:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	Hi, I think you might want to take a look at this link: http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...ve-drives.html __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

01-14-2007, 08:19 PM	#4 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,412 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	your "beef" is not with the CPU simply buy the serial key code for getdataback and all will be well it will restore your drive and data for use no external drive purchase necessary the section about Partition magic is a method to use "if" you wanted to set up a drive again and now that it cant happen again, or use the hard drive makers drive set-up utilities to partition and format the drive. for your dillema: simply use the getdataback and live happily ever after just bear in mind; every time you use that restore CD that will happen so you might want to put a copy of getdataback on a CD disk for such use after your clean installs or recoverys __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial Last edited by linderman; 01-14-2007 at 08:21 PM.

01-14-2007, 06:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
fsumichaelg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3 OS: xp	Thanks Matt, It sounds like exactly what is happening to me here. One thing that I didn't see addressed though is if after using partition magic, or whatever partition recovery program, will it do anything to the files on the slave drive? I used the GetDataBack program and everything IS there. $80 to register the program so the files can be copied. (Well worth it considering what is at stake) I am however afraid of messing up the files that are there doing anything not 100% certain. Even thought it might be better to go buy an external HD to transfer the files to not sure that would work though. Maybe just buy a new CPU and trash this one?

01-15-2007, 01:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
fsumichaelg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3 OS: xp	Used GetDataBack. Was able to xfer everything intact and then reformatted the slave drive for NTFS. Everything back up again and now it is the task of reloading the programs I had. Thanks for everyone's help.