Hi
I have another question about my SATA drive!
I have just had to reinstall my OS (WinXP Pro SP2), on a Dell Optiplex 270. I have three drives in the computer – 2 IDE’s and one SATA. The system partition is contained on the Primary Master which is one of the IDE drives.
I reinstalled because the computer would not boot. I continually received a BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I think it was caused by my ATI Radeon graphics card, but installing the latest driver and removing the driver and the card from the system made no difference.
The SATA drive contains a lot of data – about 50GB of music/movies.
When I initially ran setup after booting from the XP CD, setup refused to recognise my C: drive as a valid partition. As it did not contain any data, I told Setup to delete the partition and create a new one. However, Setup next claimed that the partition was not compatible with XP and that XP could not be installed on it.
In order to get XP to install I had to remove both the second IDE drive and the SATA drive. After I did this, Setup recognised my IDE and repartioned and reformatted.
My problem is that after reconnecting my SATA drive, the system cannot read it. It gives a message saying the drive is not formatted and “would I like to format it now?”
Just in case you are wondering, I did not remove the partition on the SATA drive during Setup – Setup lists the drives by drive letter and volume name.
Does anyone know how I may get WinXP Pro to read the data on my SATA drive? I will be very pleased with any help.
Thanks
