OT : SCSI drive question

[Emmerich]

On my PC I had a SATA drive as C: and a SCSI as E:. I have added a second SATA drive. My PC sees the SATA drives but not the SCSI anymore. I have removed the second SATA to go back to original and it still won't see the SCSI. The SCSI is visible in the BIOS and is visible in Windows, except it does not have a drive letter. I set up a partition on it with a drive letter (did not format), but now it says the drive is not formatted.

I used this drive as a backup and have data I can't lose. Anybody know why XP suddenly doesn't see the drive properly? Any solution to getting this resolved?

thanks
Fred

[cmbdiesel]

Have you tried going into control panel/admin tools/comp management/disk manager See if the scsi drive has a letter designated to it and if not, give it one.

I'm NOT a super IT guy, but I've been there before, and kinda remember what I did to get XP to recognize my drives.

[Emmerich]

Originally Posted by cmbdiesel

Have you tried going into control panel/admin tools/comp management/disk manager See if the scsi drive has a letter designated to it and if not, give it one.

I'm NOT a super IT guy, but I've been there before, and kinda remember what I did to get XP to recognize my drives.

That is exactly what I did, and that is when I got the message that said the drive was not formatted.

Fred

[cmbdiesel]

Damn.

Maybe take the drive elsewhere and get the data off it before further attempts?

[kknudson]

Well the first suggestion was good.

The second is an ownership/permissions type issue. I had a similiar situation a long ways back so I don't remember the details, sorry.

But, pull the second sata, so you see the SCSI properly again, clone/copy or ?? to a USB, then you can trash it IF needed. Check the backed up data first.

[Emmerich]

I tried that and the same thing happens. XP sees the drive with no drive letter and I am wondering if the settings don't travel with the drive?

When I got the PC 3 years ago and installed the SCSI, it just recognized the card automatically and everything came up. I don't remember if it required me to format the drive, at that time it was empty.

Originally Posted by kknudson

Well the first suggestion was good.

The second is an ownership/permissions type issue. I had a similiar situation a long ways back so I don't remember the details, sorry.

But, pull the second sata, so you see the SCSI properly again, clone/copy or ?? to a USB, then you can trash it IF needed. Check the backed up data first.

[diametricalbenz]

Are there any other SCSI deviced attached to the computer?

Is the SCSI card onboard or a PCI card?

Does it show a letter drive (presumably in XP) with no capacity or free space?

[Emmerich]

The SCSI card is a PCI card and the disk drive is the only SCSI device, besides the card. Originally it showed up in XP as unpartioned space. I assigned it a drive letter so now it shows up under My Computer, but if I click on it the messages says the drive is unformatted.

thanks
Fred

Originally Posted by diametricalbenz

Are there any other SCSI deviced attached to the computer?

Is the SCSI card onboard or a PCI card?

Does it show a letter drive (presumably in XP) with no capacity or free space?

[Ashman]

I would try to boot up to a linux live cd or something and see if you can mount the drive in there, or try one of the windows pe boot discs with disk untilities.

Sounds to me like the partition table could have been somehow damaged - though havent had that happen to me in more years than I can count on both hands.

I have played with some win pe boot disks (bascially it is a stripped down version of windows xp that is cd bootable and runs off the cd.) some people have made boot discs based off of it, with multiple utilities on it for fixing things.

I would def not try to do anything with the drive, like format it or etc.

you did say you partitioned the drive then added a letter, or you just assigned a drive letter?