Problem with hard drive

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Daniel - Sydney

Hi

I have XP Pro with a 1.3 Gig P4 CPU and 768 meg RAM.

I have installed a new second hard drive, which had data from my old
second hard drive written to it on another PC.

The hard drive is seen in the BIOS and in Hardware Devices, where is is said
to be working properly, but it is not in explorer.

I looked in My Computer/Manage/Disk Management and the disk is there but
is shown as Dynamic Foreign. I'm not sure what that means or how to make the
Hard Drive appear in Explorer.

Any advice on what to do would be appreciated, I do not care if I lose the
data on the disk.

thanks
 
Daniel, if the other PC is available reinstall the second hard drive and
format it from there.
"Daniel - Sydney" <DanielSydney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3B1090E9-7B04-461C-9640-B4D839F94519@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I have XP Pro with a 1.3 Gig P4 CPU and 768 meg RAM.
>
> I have installed a new second hard drive, which had data from my old
> second hard drive written to it on another PC.
>
> The hard drive is seen in the BIOS and in Hardware Devices, where is is
> said
> to be working properly, but it is not in explorer.
>
> I looked in My Computer/Manage/Disk Management and the disk is there but
> is shown as Dynamic Foreign. I'm not sure what that means or how to make
> the
> Hard Drive appear in Explorer.
>
> Any advice on what to do would be appreciated, I do not care if I lose the
> data on the disk.
>
> thanks
 
Rich

I'm not sure I understand, the drive was formatted on the other PC, that was
beforeI got the data onto it, putting it into my PC is where the problem
lies, in any case the other PC is now in pieces.

Any other ideas?

regards

"Rich Barry" wrote:

> Daniel, if the other PC is available reinstall the second hard drive and
> format it from there.
> "Daniel - Sydney" <DanielSydney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3B1090E9-7B04-461C-9640-B4D839F94519@microsoft.com...
> > Hi
> >
> > I have XP Pro with a 1.3 Gig P4 CPU and 768 meg RAM.
> >
> > I have installed a new second hard drive, which had data from my old
> > second hard drive written to it on another PC.
> >
> > The hard drive is seen in the BIOS and in Hardware Devices, where is is
> > said
> > to be working properly, but it is not in explorer.
> >
> > I looked in My Computer/Manage/Disk Management and the disk is there but
> > is shown as Dynamic Foreign. I'm not sure what that means or how to make
> > the
> > Hard Drive appear in Explorer.
> >
> > Any advice on what to do would be appreciated, I do not care if I lose the
> > data on the disk.
> >
> > thanks
>
>
>
 

> "Daniel - Sydney" <DanielSydney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> news:3B1090E9-7B04-461C-9640-B4D839F94519@microsoft.com...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have XP Pro with a 1.3 Gig P4 CPU and 768 meg RAM.
>>
>> I have installed a new second hard drive, which had data from my old
>> second hard drive written to it on another PC.
>>
>> The hard drive is seen in the BIOS and in Hardware Devices, where is is
>> said
>> to be working properly, but it is not in explorer.
>>
>> I looked in My Computer/Manage/Disk Management and the disk is there but
>> is shown as Dynamic Foreign. I'm not sure what that means or how to make
>> the
>> Hard Drive appear in Explorer.
>>
>> Any advice on what to do would be appreciated, I do not care if I lose
>> the
>> data on the disk.
>>
>> thanks


"Rich Barry" <rbarry@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4692db9f$0$24729$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> Daniel, if the other PC is available reinstall the second hard drive and
> format it from there.


Daniel:
Presumably you're running the Home Ed. of the XP OS. As such, this version
cannot access data on a dynamic (foreign) disk. Most likely that drive was
mistakenly originally created as a "dynamic" disk - instead of a "basic"
disk in a previous OS. While there are situations where a HDD should be
created as a "dynamic" disk, it's a relatively rare situation for most users
where this is necessary.

In any event, the Home Ed. of XP cannot access data on a dynamic disk. It
"sees" the disk as "foreign". You can convert the disk to a "Basic" disk in
your present system; there is no need to install the HDD in another machine.

In Disk Management, simply right-click on the drive (the area where the disk
is shown as "Dynamic") and select the "Convert to Basic Disk" from the
sub-menu that opens. Understand that when you do this, all data on the disk
will be lost - the data will be destroyed. However, since you've indicated
that it's of no import to you if the data is lost, then you can go ahead
with this process.

The disk will then be reflected as "Unallocated" and you can then go ahead
with partitioning/formatting it in Disk Management.
Anna
 
"Anna" wrote:

>
> > "Daniel - Sydney" <DanielSydney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message
> > news:3B1090E9-7B04-461C-9640-B4D839F94519@microsoft.com...
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I have XP Pro with a 1.3 Gig P4 CPU and 768 meg RAM.
> >>
> >> I have installed a new second hard drive, which had data from my old
> >> second hard drive written to it on another PC.
> >>
> >> The hard drive is seen in the BIOS and in Hardware Devices, where is is
> >> said
> >> to be working properly, but it is not in explorer.
> >>
> >> I looked in My Computer/Manage/Disk Management and the disk is there but
> >> is shown as Dynamic Foreign. I'm not sure what that means or how to make
> >> the
> >> Hard Drive appear in Explorer.
> >>
> >> Any advice on what to do would be appreciated, I do not care if I lose
> >> the
> >> data on the disk.
> >>
> >> thanks
>
>
> "Rich Barry" <rbarry@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4692db9f$0$24729$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> > Daniel, if the other PC is available reinstall the second hard drive and
> > format it from there.
>
>
> Daniel:
> Presumably you're running the Home Ed. of the XP OS. As such, this version
> cannot access data on a dynamic (foreign) disk. Most likely that drive was
> mistakenly originally created as a "dynamic" disk - instead of a "basic"
> disk in a previous OS. While there are situations where a HDD should be
> created as a "dynamic" disk, it's a relatively rare situation for most users
> where this is necessary.
>
> In any event, the Home Ed. of XP cannot access data on a dynamic disk. It
> "sees" the disk as "foreign". You can convert the disk to a "Basic" disk in
> your present system; there is no need to install the HDD in another machine.
>
> In Disk Management, simply right-click on the drive (the area where the disk
> is shown as "Dynamic") and select the "Convert to Basic Disk" from the
> sub-menu that opens. Understand that when you do this, all data on the disk
> will be lost - the data will be destroyed. However, since you've indicated
> that it's of no import to you if the data is lost, then you can go ahead
> with this process.
>
> The disk will then be reflected as "Unallocated" and you can then go ahead
> with partitioning/formatting it in Disk Management.
> Anna

Anna

I have XP Pro.

cheers
 
Daniel, is that the case that you had the drive configured as Dynamic
instead of Basic? If yes, follow the good advice that
Anna gave you. You can do it from XP Pro as well.
"Daniel - Sydney" <DanielSydney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3B1090E9-7B04-461C-9640-B4D839F94519@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I have XP Pro with a 1.3 Gig P4 CPU and 768 meg RAM.
>
> I have installed a new second hard drive, which had data from my old
> second hard drive written to it on another PC.
>
> The hard drive is seen in the BIOS and in Hardware Devices, where is is
> said
> to be working properly, but it is not in explorer.
>
> I looked in My Computer/Manage/Disk Management and the disk is there but
> is shown as Dynamic Foreign. I'm not sure what that means or how to make
> the
> Hard Drive appear in Explorer.
>
> Any advice on what to do would be appreciated, I do not care if I lose the
> data on the disk.
>
> thanks
 
Will do,

thanks for your help

regards

"Rich Barry" wrote:

> Daniel, is that the case that you had the drive configured as Dynamic
> instead of Basic? If yes, follow the good advice that
> Anna gave you. You can do it from XP Pro as well.
> "Daniel - Sydney" <DanielSydney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3B1090E9-7B04-461C-9640-B4D839F94519@microsoft.com...
> > Hi
> >
> > I have XP Pro with a 1.3 Gig P4 CPU and 768 meg RAM.
> >
> > I have installed a new second hard drive, which had data from my old
> > second hard drive written to it on another PC.
> >
> > The hard drive is seen in the BIOS and in Hardware Devices, where is is
> > said
> > to be working properly, but it is not in explorer.
> >
> > I looked in My Computer/Manage/Disk Management and the disk is there but
> > is shown as Dynamic Foreign. I'm not sure what that means or how to make
> > the
> > Hard Drive appear in Explorer.
> >
> > Any advice on what to do would be appreciated, I do not care if I lose the
> > data on the disk.
> >
> > thanks
>
>
>
 
"Daniel - Sydney" wrote:

> Will do,
>
> thanks for your help
>
> regards
>
> "Rich Barry" wrote:
>
> > Daniel, is that the case that you had the drive configured as Dynamic
> > instead of Basic? If yes, follow the good advice that
> > Anna gave you. You can do it from XP Pro as well.
> > "Daniel - Sydney" <DanielSydney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:3B1090E9-7B04-461C-9640-B4D839F94519@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have XP Pro with a 1.3 Gig P4 CPU and 768 meg RAM.
> > >
> > > I have installed a new second hard drive, which had data from my old
> > > second hard drive written to it on another PC.
> > >
> > > The hard drive is seen in the BIOS and in Hardware Devices, where is is
> > > said
> > > to be working properly, but it is not in explorer.
> > >
> > > I looked in My Computer/Manage/Disk Management and the disk is there but
> > > is shown as Dynamic Foreign. I'm not sure what that means or how to make
> > > the
> > > Hard Drive appear in Explorer.
> > >
> > > Any advice on what to do would be appreciated, I do not care if I lose the
> > > data on the disk.
> > >
> > > thanks
> >
> >
> > daniel if you still have problem go here
http://www.nthelp.com/NT6/dynamic.htm
go here but will only recover the first partition hopefully you only had one
 

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