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I am having a problem with my XP reading the data on my 30gig NTFS Maxtor hard drive. I have 2 hard drives on my computer (one FAT32 as the master and one NTFS as the slave) and recently had to format the FAT32 master due to virus and spyware problems. I made sure to not format the NTFS slave in the process. Everything was successful and I got XP running again but now I cannot get it to read the data on my NTFS drive. I had over 1,500 songs on there as well as other vital information. Is there anything I can do to get XP to read the NTFS?
The first thing I would do is see if the drive appears under the disk management console in device manager. If it does then all you need to do is make it active. If it does not show and it isn't recognized at all then the easiest thing to do is shut down the computer, disconnect the IDE cable from the slave drive, boot up, shut down again and reconnect the slave drive. This will "trick" XP into thinking it's a new drive and it should now appear under My Computer and be active.
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No such luck but thanks for the help. I went into the disk management and it now says that it is Healthy and Active but still no sign of any of the data. I went into My Computer and it is listed, but when i go to view the data, I get asked if I want to format the drive or not. I really don't want to. I just really don't understand how my healty (and active) drive is unable to be read.
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Then try to disconnect the IDE cable as I suggested. This has happened to me before and that cleared it up. Especially if you installed XP on the master and it wasn't a stand-alone. Meaning the slave was still connected. Try this first and see what happens.
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Tried, done and still unsuccessful. I still get asked if I want to format the drive when I try to access the information. It still says that it is Healthy (Active). Thanks again for your time. There must be some way to get it working.
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Quicky: What does "Convert to Dynamic Disk" do?
Look here
Basic Storage Versus Dynamic Storage in Windows XP
i_XpUser
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The slave drive should not have the "active" partition bit set. Only the XP boot drive should be.
get the ntfsdos reader from sysinternals.com
see if your data is there.Usually this issue is due to your reinstall of XP. New system and users sid is created that does not match the one stamped by xp on the drive or folders.
solution if the drive is seen and you get a access denied is to take ownership of all files and folders. Does not sound like you have this option. So leach off your files and format the drive.
So what is up with XP that results in this behaviour compared to previous OS's that I don't ever recall a post of this kind of issue????
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What does Disk Management say about your NTFS drive in the Capacity & Free Space columns because it's sounding to me like it's present and correct but there's nothing on it !
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