Hey guys. I love this forum. I have a problem however.
I have 2 hard drives. One is my os installed hdd which is the C: drive 120gb. The second one is my storage hdd 300gb. They are both sata hdd's. I had to reformat my computer so i transferred all the data i needed from my first hdd to my second hdd so i can reformat my first hdd as that is the one with WinXP home. I reformatted the hdd. However i left the second hdd plugged in while i was reformatting but i never partitioned the second hdd and never configured anything on it. When it came up to the screen in the windows setup where i have to choose which hdd to install my os on, i chose my first drive C:. I noticed however that my second hdd showed a partition of 128gb. This was weird as when i first formatted my second hdd, it was 300gb. Now it shows 128 gb. I didnt pay any attention to it as I was not even reformatting that hdd.
So i formatted the first hdd. I go to my computer to open my second hdd and i get this message: Drive D: is not formatted. Would you like to format? I chose no as that would erase everything I have on it. I know my data is there but I cannot access it. I look in the disk management console and it show my first hard drive as healthy (system) NTFS with the correct capacity and free space. The second hdd shows as healthy (active) with only 128gb capacity and 128gb free space. This drive shows as RAW not even NTFS. Why would it be RAW? This is wrong.
Now i read somewhere that this 128 gb limitation might be due to the fact that i have to install either the SATA drivers or the Maxtor drivers for my hdd. The thing is i cant find my motherboard drivers and i downloaded the drivers off the internet and i dont know if they are the right ones. Im going insane. i need help you guys. I cant afford to lose my data.
I doubt that there is any physical damage to the hdd as it was working before perfectly and now is not after the reformat. It is only a year old. Please someone shed some light on this. Thanks.
This is a related thread, but no help: https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?p=591912
I have 2 hard drives. One is my os installed hdd which is the C: drive 120gb. The second one is my storage hdd 300gb. They are both sata hdd's. I had to reformat my computer so i transferred all the data i needed from my first hdd to my second hdd so i can reformat my first hdd as that is the one with WinXP home. I reformatted the hdd. However i left the second hdd plugged in while i was reformatting but i never partitioned the second hdd and never configured anything on it. When it came up to the screen in the windows setup where i have to choose which hdd to install my os on, i chose my first drive C:. I noticed however that my second hdd showed a partition of 128gb. This was weird as when i first formatted my second hdd, it was 300gb. Now it shows 128 gb. I didnt pay any attention to it as I was not even reformatting that hdd.
So i formatted the first hdd. I go to my computer to open my second hdd and i get this message: Drive D: is not formatted. Would you like to format? I chose no as that would erase everything I have on it. I know my data is there but I cannot access it. I look in the disk management console and it show my first hard drive as healthy (system) NTFS with the correct capacity and free space. The second hdd shows as healthy (active) with only 128gb capacity and 128gb free space. This drive shows as RAW not even NTFS. Why would it be RAW? This is wrong.
Now i read somewhere that this 128 gb limitation might be due to the fact that i have to install either the SATA drivers or the Maxtor drivers for my hdd. The thing is i cant find my motherboard drivers and i downloaded the drivers off the internet and i dont know if they are the right ones. Im going insane. i need help you guys. I cant afford to lose my data.
I doubt that there is any physical damage to the hdd as it was working before perfectly and now is not after the reformat. It is only a year old. Please someone shed some light on this. Thanks.
This is a related thread, but no help: https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?p=591912