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SATA Drive problems
Bionic Monkey
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I'll try this in here too, since H/A seems to be low traffic right now.
Okay, in the long fucking line of problems my computer has developed since last night, after two fresh installations of Windows, my SATA hard drives have decided to stop working. The first drive just dropped out completely, while the second drive could be seen, but not accessed. I went and redefined the first array, and now have regular access. However, the second drive cannot be seen. I go into the Disk Management utility, and I can see the drive is there, but Windows XP says it's unallocated. I've doubled, and triple checked, the it appears to be defined right and current drivers are installed, so I'm pretty much at a loss. So, now I'm deferring to your expertise.
I should add, there are files on this drive, and if at all possible, I'd like to regain access without losing that data. I'm not adverse to a third fresh install of XP, if the problem is software related. Though I'd prefer that as a last option.
Okay, in the long fucking line of problems my computer has developed since last night, after two fresh installations of Windows, my SATA hard drives have decided to stop working. The first drive just dropped out completely, while the second drive could be seen, but not accessed. I went and redefined the first array, and now have regular access. However, the second drive cannot be seen. I go into the Disk Management utility, and I can see the drive is there, but Windows XP says it's unallocated. I've doubled, and triple checked, the it appears to be defined right and current drivers are installed, so I'm pretty much at a loss. So, now I'm deferring to your expertise.
I should add, there are files on this drive, and if at all possible, I'd like to regain access without losing that data. I'm not adverse to a third fresh install of XP, if the problem is software related. Though I'd prefer that as a last option.
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you mentioned array. Are you running a RAID?
Technically, yes, though I'm running each drive as it's own array. I couldn't find any other way to access the drives on my old motherboard without running them as stripe arrays.
You can try setting up your drives as JBOD (aka Just a Bunch Of Disks). In this setting each drive will be seen as an individual drive. The first level of set-up for this is in BIOS. Check your motherboard manual for the details. If you don't have the manual most manufacturers put them in pdf format on the web.