Moving hard drive

petjoke1 · 12-11-2007, 08:22 AM

Hoping someone can help. I have set the old drive up as slave and this is recognised by vista disk management. However, it has no drive letter and is not recognised by my computer so I can't access any of the files. The only action I can access is delete volume. I really need to access some of the programmes and files from the old hd.

Can anyone help?

Peter

**simpswr** · 12-11-2007, 08:27 AM

Was it working before? . . How do you have it connected. I find I have the best luck if I connect the older IDE drive to the secondary channel . . temporarily disconnect the Optical drives and use that ribbon.

If it is still not recognized, in Disk Management, Right click on the drive . . select Properties . . click on the Tools tab and then Error checking . . put a check in both boxes and let it run chkdsk . . it might take a while

petjoke1 · 12-11-2007, 08:37 AM

Hi thanks for the reply. It is connected and recognised by disk management but not by my computer and is working. Peter

dai · 12-11-2007, 08:51 AM

try taking ownership
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/1...menu-in-vista/

petjoke1 · 12-11-2007, 08:53 AM

don't understand your reply. what is the optical drive?

**Deleted090308** · 12-11-2007, 09:01 AM

Hi,

It sounds like you have to repair the partition table.
Have a look at this: http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...-computer.html

**simpswr** · 12-11-2007, 09:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petjoke1

don't understand your reply. what is the optical drive?

CD and/or DVD drives . . .

petjoke1 · 12-11-2007, 09:03 AM

Hi. Im the administrator. The HD is divided into 2 volumes. Don't have anything under file system for either. Layout-simple both. Type-basic both. Status 1 (Healthy EISA configuration). Status 2 Healthy(Active, Primary partition)

Peter

12-11-2007, 08:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
petjoke1 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5 OS: vista	Moving hard drive Hoping someone can help. I have set the old drive up as slave and this is recognised by vista disk management. However, it has no drive letter and is not recognised by my computer so I can't access any of the files. The only action I can access is delete volume. I really need to access some of the programmes and files from the old hd. Can anyone help? Peter

12-11-2007, 08:27 AM	#2 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 8,950 OS: XP, Vista	Re: Moving hard drive Was it working before? . . How do you have it connected. I find I have the best luck if I connect the older IDE drive to the secondary channel . . temporarily disconnect the Optical drives and use that ribbon. If it is still not recognized, in Disk Management, Right click on the drive . . select Properties . . click on the Tools tab and then Error checking . . put a check in both boxes and let it run chkdsk . . it might take a while __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help \| How to Post a Screen shot \| PC running slow?]

12-11-2007, 08:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
petjoke1 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5 OS: vista	Re: Moving hard drive Hi thanks for the reply. It is connected and recognised by disk management but not by my computer and is working. Peter

12-11-2007, 08:51 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,622 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: Moving hard drive try taking ownership http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/1...menu-in-vista/ __________________

12-11-2007, 08:53 AM	#5 (permalink)
petjoke1 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5 OS: vista	Re: Moving hard drive don't understand your reply. what is the optical drive?

12-11-2007, 09:01 AM	#6 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Moving hard drive Hi, It sounds like you have to repair the partition table. Have a look at this: http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...-computer.html

12-11-2007, 09:03 AM	#8 (permalink)
petjoke1 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5 OS: vista	Re: Moving hard drive Hi. Im the administrator. The HD is divided into 2 volumes. Don't have anything under file system for either. Layout-simple both. Type-basic both. Status 1 (Healthy EISA configuration). Status 2 Healthy(Active, Primary partition) Peter