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by sjdschool24

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Ok, I've read other posts with similar issues but mine is a little bit different. Here is the problem:

I have 3 hd's:

one 40 gig with xp (SATA)
one 40 gig with vista (IDE) and
one 160 gig as storage (IDE)

I dual boot with a program called OSL2000. Now, upon boot I can access either vista or xp, in other words my computer IS detecting and dual boot works.

Now if I boot into Vista (IDE) all the drives will be detected and listed in "My Computer". No problems here.

When I boot into my XP (sata) drive however neither my vista drive or my storage will be detected. It is really driving me nuts and I have run out of ideas. Any suggestions?

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by thechas

First, open Device Manager while in XP and see if you can see the IDE storage controller and the IDE drives from there.

If the devices are missing, or if there are any yellow ? or ! for devices, you need to install / update drivers.

Start with the motherboard or system manufactures web site, and install the chip-set driver. That should bring back the IDE controller and find the drives.

If the drives are there, open up Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management.
See if the drives are there, and if there are any error messages.

It may be just a matter of mounting the volumes.

Chas

by sjdschool24

[quote]If the drives are there, open up Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management.
See if the drives are there, and if there are any error messages.

It may be just a matter of mounting the volumes.[/quote]

Yep, the devices are all listed in device manager and disk management with no errors. I guess the next question is, how to I mount these volumes? When I right click the drives in disk management all the opotions are greyed out for the two drives except for "delete partition". Where do I go from here?

Many thanks,

Marty

by ic-it

Unfortunately, I have not played with this configuration but ....
I believe that if Bitlocker is enabled on the Vista drive, it will prevent you from mounting the drive from XP.

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