I have a 160GB harddrive I use for dedicated storage. I had windows xp pro corp installed on my 120, and had the 160 as storage, had a few simple installers, and my videos on it. I just reformatted my 120 and put windows xp media center on it, and now it won't let me access my 160GB. Anyone have any idea why? Would the different OS matter even though its just a storage drive (Update: i tried it on a comp with xp pro corp, still same problem)? It won't let me change drive letters or do anything but delete the partition (in disk management)..and I have movies on the drive I need to save so I cant just format it. Thanks
go to fdisk and try to activate the partition with the new media centre edition os on it or take the hard drive out, use it as an external drive, back up the data then format it nd put it bk inside the pc.
basically if u make a windows 98 start up disk, i think xp should have fdisk aswel. in xp in sert a floppy nd right click the floppy drive in my computer and go to format and create an MS-DOS start up disk. reboot your computer nd insert the disk and at propmt, type fdisk, som options shud come up andi think there shud be something like set primary partition or activate partition. select it nd reboot, it shud wrk.
would converting to dynamic drive help? I just dont want to lose the info on my 2nd drive but i want to be able to open it and get the files off of it.
STOP! Stop right there! You do not need FDISK and you do not need a floppy drive! I don't have time to explain right now, but look at some of my other posts in this forum. I've given the answer to this question so many times before you'd be hard pressed not to find one.
another solution is probably make another partition from the MCE os with partition magic or sumfing and format it and then start ur MCE back up ur data onto da new partion and just format the MCE partition
dis is wat megamaced wrote in another forum to activate the partition nd im pretty sure its to do wid going into fdisk and making a partition active.Once at the commmand prompt, type fdisk. Click YES to enable large disk support.You will now be presented with a list of options. I think option 2 is to make a partition active. From here you can select the partition to be active. __________________ I am assuming you can't boot into your computer at all. What i'm about to tell you will work in a FAT32 environment - but it may work on NTFS as well. 1) You will need to get a bootable floppy disk of DOS. The best place to go is www.bootdisk.com. Download the Windows 98SE startup disk and copy the contents to a floppy. 2) Restart your computer with the floppy disk inserted. You will need to make sure the floppy drive is your first bootable disk in the CMOS setup. 3) You will be taken to a screen that asks whether you'd like CD-ROM support. You can answer however you like, it doesn't matter. 4) Once at the commmand prompt, type fdisk. Click YES to enable large disk support. 5) You will now be presented with a list of options. I think option 2 is to make a partition active. From here you can select the partition to be active. __________________
he said i wouldnt need an fdisk though. I have windows xp media center..and when I go into disk management, there are 2 options on my slave that arent greyed out, that is Delete Partition, and Help, there is no Initialize or anything I can do with it...this drive worked fine as a slave right before i reformatted too
Did you check at the bottom right of the disk management? You will definately find it there. You have to initialise it from there.
How would I take ownership of it? It wont let me do any of that, all I can do is convert to dynamic disk or delete partition, those are the only things it lets me do.
