invisible HDD 1,5tb on winXP

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2. November 2009 - 7:48
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Hey ppl! Need some help. After fresh winXP SP3 install all was working fine, but dunno why, maybe after some win-update it stopped to see my seagate barracuda 1,5Tb HDD. Second system win7 see it clearly without any blur Tongue Sad Any ideas would be apreciated. Thx in advance.

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2. November 2009 - 8:03
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hi Doc Happy

look at storage administration in xp (i dont remember right name cos i dont use xp more than year). Sometimes hdd have to be assigned before use.

Do you have this hdd formatted? Stupid old XP doesnt show you disks without file format

Thats all, i hope it will help you to solve your problem

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2. November 2009 - 9:21
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hdd was formatted and contain all my movie\music files and its almost full Sad and i dint have another place for backup 1,5tb neither friends have Sad

btw administrative tool says its dynamic disk but cant be read, win7 admin tool says its dynamic disk also but read it without any problems.

btw using xp pro sp3 system so it must be allowed to use dynamic disks :\ and it worked after i installed it, but stopped dunno why ((

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2. November 2009 - 9:39
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Yeah, XP hates dynamic disks. There is not much you can do about your problem without risking the loss of all the data, i'm afraid.

If you do want to take the risk, read this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913964

Navigate to "workaround" section.

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2. November 2009 - 10:30
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thx, i will try it just after i back up most important files Tongue

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2. November 2009 - 12:41
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win7/vista use a newer ntfs version... i think thats the problem why winxp cant read ur hdd.. if u format ur hdd with vista/7 an older partitionsmagic cant read ur hdd too

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2. November 2009 - 14:59
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mhm, seems problem is somewhere in motherboard drivers, coz in other fresh install of winxp from same cd this hdd seeing just fine, but i need MB drivers for network controller, now trying to extract them from other crap of asus drivers cd Happy

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odin [EN] wrote:
win7/vista use a newer ntfs version... i think thats the problem why winxp cant read ur hdd.. if u format ur hdd with vista/7 an older partitionsmagic cant read ur hdd too

nope, i formatted it trough winXP and now it works, but still need install network drivers without disk drivers to keep it working.

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2. November 2009 - 19:12
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which mobo do you have and which network adapter do you have? I will try to help ya

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3. November 2009 - 2:33
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thx Beazty, now everything solved by downloading newest software for motherboard, which has splitted drivers where i can turn off storage device driver install Tongue coz install them still f**k up this dynamic drive.

THX all for helping, especially Beazt Kiss Big grin

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3. November 2009 - 7:43
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+DoctoR+PHC wrote:

thx Beazty, now everything solved by downloading newest software for motherboard, which has splitted drivers where i can turn off storage device driver install Tongue coz install them still f**k up this dynamic drive.

THX all for helping, especially Beazt Kiss Big grin

Why? You solved your problem, not me Big grin

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5. November 2009 - 14:58
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FYI:
In case of HW problems with 7200.11 series of seagate there are the next information may be useful for someone:

1. Seagate KB
2. The final solution

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