Need help

[Sgt_Pinto]

Um i recently re formatted my c drive and installed windows xp again. I only formatted the C (ide) drive and didn't touch my z (sATA) drive. All i use my Z drive for is storing files. But however now i don't see the Z drive in "my computer" i goto administrator and the only thing i can do is format it. But i don't want to format it because i have 130gigs of files on there that i need/want. Mostly need. So what do i do?

 

[Neuromancer]

Right Click MY computer

Manage

Disk Management

(not device manager )

Initialize the drive

EDIT: Deja Vu

 

[Sgt_Pinto]

in disk manager is says its a disk0, dynamic, foreign disk. and the only command it lets me do is "convert to basic disk".

 

[tuskenraider]

That's what you need to do. Converting to a basic disk isn't that simple though. Read up on how to do it here.

 

[Sgt_Pinto]

yes, that that would clear all the data on the disk. which would kind of defeat the purpose of me wanting to get important files from the hard drive. I was told by some one else i should try to take control of the foriegn drive.. i dont see any commands for that.

 

[Xaotic]

What you need to do to recover the information is use an XP Pro installation to import the disk(XP Home does not have this option) and then save the information to other media(HDD or CD/DVD). You will need to reformat the disk for your current XP Home installation to be able to read it. More details here:

http://www.alexnolan.net/articles/import_foreign_disks.htm

 

[Sgt_Pinto]

yep thanks