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    TilesOne Posts: 3, Reputation: 2
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    Jul 4, 2006, 04:28 PM
    Drive Not Recognized in Windows XP
    !! PLEASE HELP ME!!

    Okay, I have been beating my head against the wall for two days now, and I have been without my system for a week, so I'd really appreciate the help.


    I built a system three days ago and everything was going perfectly had programs up and functioning great. I have two SATA hard drives in a RAID config. That is my main drive, that windows XP is operating on. I also installed a secondary HD from my old machine that has a lot of important files on it... i.e. all the music that I've made for the past year. I had everything perfect (All my drives recognized & programs running perfect.) until the unthinkable.

    I tried to install Norton System Works of all programs and it crashed while setting up Norton GoBack. That made my system completely unable to boot. I tried everything I could think of, and finally gave up cleared my SATA RAID HD's and reinstalled Win XP. Here's the kicker, I can't get XP to recognize my Old HD anymore. It appears in the BIOS, and in the device manger (drivers should be fine). When I checked Disk Manager its been labelled Disk 0 with no path letter and no way to assign one. The only thing it will let me do is formatt the drive which is unacceptable because I need those files. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!

    -Tiles:mad:
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    Here_To_Help- Jon Posts: 97, Reputation: 26
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    Jul 4, 2006, 09:08 PM
    Was System Restore ever an option? Sounds like its gone now. So your system now as 2 SATA drives that are readable and bootable (one of them, that is) and a thirs drive that the system won't recognize. Is the 3rd drive a USB2.0 connected drive. I don't have a quick answer... just trying to get some background. I'd start by contacting the drive mfg support site... my guess is they will have some ideas.
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    Jul 4, 2006, 09:59 PM
    Thanks for helping out Jon,

    But... I FIXED IT!!
    Thank God. Turns out I had to boot from that drive and disable some remnants of Norton GoBack still hanging around... after I did that, booted from my main drive and everything was peachy.

    -T
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