Any ideas would be good.

Count_Zero99uk · 5 Aug 2006 at 21:49

OK i have a new computer that works.

Before i gave my old machine to my brother i copied a lot of usefull info and settings to a SATA hard drive in that machine. I have now fitted it in this machine.

It has come up in disk management but only to re format as a basic drive not to access the info allready on it.

Someone please advise.

Tetras · 5 Aug 2006 at 22:16

Isn't there an option like, Import Foreign Drive?

Count_Zero99uk · 5 Aug 2006 at 22:36

not that i can see

Gandalf501 · 6 Aug 2006 at 01:58

SATA Drivers installed??

Count_Zero99uk · 6 Aug 2006 at 08:48

i think so, the other 2 SATA seem to be working fine.

Count_Zero99uk · 6 Aug 2006 at 12:33

Would it matter that the HD im talking about was set up in XP Pro and i have XP Home?

ATHRoss · 16 Aug 2006 at 21:50

Suffering from the same symptoms here too.

Had W-XP Pro on my machine. Installed W-XP Home and now the 2nd drive appears as 'foreign' in Disk Management of Administrative Tools.

I dont want to run the risk of a format then data recovery. Any ideas?

thanks

ATHRoss

[Edit] Had a bit more of a play. The 'foreign' disk is recognisable and accessable in my other XP-Pro PC. A lot of reading on Microsoft now suggests that dynamic disks are not supported in XP Home at all and to get them back to a basic disk takes a format

Need to keep digging before doing that though.[/edit]

SiriusB · 17 Aug 2006 at 00:48

Get yourself some sort of Linux Live CD. This should be able to read all of the data on the drive and allow you to copy it elsewhere. Not the sleekest of solutions but has worked for me in the past when a drive has been otherwise unreadable by Windows.

SiriusB