Weird HD prob - appears in 'Device Manager' but not able to browse

pencil

Hi all,

Well I bought and built that (this) system I was talking about & she is just humming along! My first build too!

I have this weird problem, I'm putting in a second HD (a 80g WD) on the slave position on the primary IDE. It is appearing in the device manager but I can't browse it!

I've tried the jumper on slave & Carrier select to no avail (same result).

I've tried a completely different HD (a 200g WD) and get the exact same result - it appears in the 'device manager' but I can't browse it.

Any Idea what the fu@k?

Willymuncher

Did you format the drives? sometimes the simple things are overlooked...you can't browse them until they are formatted and they aren't visible in my computer either...i installed a 120 seagate barracuda, found it wasn't listed in my computer...but it was listed in device manager, i formatted it, and windows recognised it straight away!

Mac daddy

what does windows disk management see??? unallocated- unused??

Ciaran500

It just needs to be formated. Just go to adminstration tools>Disk Managment and format it.

Stephen

You will probably need to partition it before formatting if it is a brand new disk.

pencil

I wish that was it, there is a LOT of important design files on it.

It also appears, correctly referenced, in the BIOS.

Help!!

Sleipnir

What OS?

pencil

O yeah, XP Pro

Any idea Sleipnir?

Sleipnir

Can you see it in disk management as Mac Daddy said above?

pencil

Where do I find disk management - hopefully I'll have found it by the time you read

pencil

Found it

In Disk Management it is appearing as 'Disk1' but is being labelled as 'foreign' and there is a little - yellow triangle with '!' - beside the disk. Like the graphic just above

pencil

Got it.

When you load a 'foreign disk' into XP you have to go in to disk manager & 'Import Foreign Disks' in to you OS. click the button & she's there.

Thanks for all the hints.

Sleipnir

Cause:

The Foreign status occurs when you move a dynamic disk to the local computer from another computer running Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional. A warning icon appears on disks that display the Foreign status.

In some cases, a disk that was previously connected to the system can display the Foreign status. Configuration data for dynamic disks is stored on all dynamic disks, so the information about which disks are owned by the system is lost when all dynamic disks fail.

Solution:

Add the disk to your computer's system configuration so that you can access data on the disk. To add a disk to your computer's system configuration, import the foreign disk (right-click the disk and then click Import Foreign Disks). Any existing volumes on the foreign disk become visible and accessible when you import the disk.

Sleipnir

oh, got there before me