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Title: OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: LonWar on July 20, 2004, 08:15:06 pm: I had some issues last night and had to reinstall xp on my system. All is now well except I can not see my second hard drive in windows. It appears in the Device tree and shows in Disk Management but I can not assign a letter to it.

To make matters worse, I can not delete the partition on it as it has my Ghost image from before I restored... I really need that ..

Anyone have any ideas?
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: paulr on July 20, 2004, 10:27:21 pm: Have you tried booting into the repair console, or into a prompt? Is the drive visible from there? Is the file system NTFS or FAT?
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: LonWar on July 21, 2004, 06:30:09 am: The drive name is availbale and visible in DOS, Does not have a letter attahed nor does it allow you to... Drive is NTFS.

I should also say that scan disk reported the drive OK(healthy) a day prior...
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: Robert Taylor on July 21, 2004, 07:37:45 am: Bit of a long shot here...

have you tried either putting in another cable (I'm assuming you're using 80-wire IDE cable),

Or at least unplugging/plugging in drive IDE cable ??

Do you see any errors in Event Viewer?

Have a look here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/ (http://www.cgsecurity.org/) at the TestDisk utility.

Are you using primary or extended partitions on the disk you re-installed on?
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: GHammer on July 21, 2004, 08:08:59 am: Quote from: imjustagamer on July 20, 2004, 08:15:06 pm
I had some issues last night and had to reinstall xp on my system. All is now well except I can not see my second hard drive in windows. It appears in the Device tree and shows in Disk Management but I can not assign a letter to it.
What issues? Might help zero in on a problem.
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: LonWar on July 21, 2004, 09:41:53 am: Quote from: LunchmeatVoom on July 21, 2004, 07:37:45 am
Bit of a long shot here...

have you tried either putting in another cable (I'm assuming you're using 80-wire IDE cable),

Or at least unplugging/plugging in drive IDE cable ??

Do you see any errors in Event Viewer?

Have a look here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/ (http://www.cgsecurity.org/) at the TestDisk utility.

Are you using primary or extended partitions on the disk you re-installed on?

I checked the cables and all are ok... The drives are setup under Master/Slave.
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: LonWar on July 21, 2004, 09:43:27 am: Quote from: GHammer on July 21, 2004, 08:08:59 am
Quote from: imjustagamer on July 20, 2004, 08:15:06 pm
I had some issues last night and had to reinstall xp on my system. All is now well except I can not see my second hard drive in windows. It appears in the Device tree and shows in Disk Management but I can not assign a letter to it.
What issues? Might help zero in on a problem.

When I booted I got a message... goback_ui error.
It would then reboot and go in circles. This did not allow me to get into Safe mode or anything.
I Didn't think much of it as I figured I'd be able to ghost it back after.
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: LonWar on July 22, 2004, 07:44:01 am: Update...

I was able to lift the image and put it on my C drive, Repartioned the D drive and copied the image back over to the D drive.

Now all drives are visible and healthy....

Ran GHOST to restore my image and it crashed...
It ran for a while and then a flashing curser appeared on the screen... After an hour I tried to reboot.. Nothing.... just a prompt. Typed in DIR and the disc was empty...

I am assuming the image got corrupted.... I am really starting to hate computers and like the dark ages... Hopefully after work tonight I can rescue something from the image....
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: GHammer on July 22, 2004, 03:34:44 pm: I had a few failures with Ghost, so I tried Acronis True Image.

I have yet to have it fail to restore exactly. And the images are much smaller.

Not going to help your current situation, but you might want to take a look at this tool for the future.
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: paulr on July 22, 2004, 05:28:31 pm: A fantastic piece of software that is pretty cheap is BootIt NG at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html .

It is a boot manager, partition manager, it will backup and restore drive images (with compression and will write them directly to optical devices or USB drives), allows you to create 200 primary partitions........ And it all fits on a single 3.5" floppy! (!!!)

It's a bit techy, but once you learn it, it's not too bad.

I've never had an issue with it's imaging feature - and it's pretty fast since it runs before Windows boots.
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: Sauzee on July 22, 2004, 05:30:21 pm: I use Acronis True Image too.

Fantastic tool.

Highly recommend it.
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: LonWar on July 22, 2004, 06:23:05 pm: Update ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I managed to repair the image and was able to ghost it back... Actuaally I think it may have been a power drop that interupted the image...

ALL my files are back the way they were 2 weeks ago...

Thanks to all for there idea's!!
Title: Re:OT -- Hard Drive Problems - - - Help??
Post by: hit_ny on July 23, 2004, 01:17:54 am: Quote
I managed to repair the image and was able to ghost it back... Actuaally I think it may have been a power drop that interupted the image...

Good to know all is well..

i use ghost as well, there is an option to verify the image immediately after it has been created. It can double the time to make an image but hopefully prevent any mishaps.