XP Hard Drive Issue

Makaveli · 30-12-2013 3:30pm #1

My primary hard drive died so I replaced it and re-installed XP. I have two other internal SATA drives and while the BIOS sees both and Windows has assigned both a drive letter when I open them both are the same drive. So effectively F and G are both actually the G drive when I access them.

How can I sort it so that I can actually access the other drive? This is driving me mad.

FSL · 30-12-2013 4:51pm

So you have three drives, the new one and two others. Does the BIOS see all three drives? Do all the drives consist of a single partition?

What shows up in Disk Management?

Makaveli · 30-12-2013 4:59pm

BIOS sees all 3, all three have a single partition and Disk Management shows the two storage drives as individual drives but Windows is only reading one of them correctly.

bonzodog2 · 30-12-2013 5:04pm

In Disk Management, try right click on the F and G disks, choose change drive letter & path, then click remove button. Then add a letter back for each disk

Makaveli · 30-12-2013 10:45pm

Doesn't really matter now, I took the drive out to try it with an external enclosure and the enclosure fried it. No back up, bit of a disaster but f it.

unkel · 30-12-2013 11:07pm

Makaveli wrote: »

I took the drive out to try it with an external enclosure and the enclosure fried it.

That sounds highly unlikely. What exactly happened when you plugged in the USB from the enclosure into your PC?

Makaveli · 30-12-2013 11:41pm

Smoke came out of it.

Took it out hoping it was maybe just the circuit board in the enclosure that went but the BIOS couldn't see the drive when I tried it.

XP Hard Drive Issue

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