System:
P4M800PRO-M Dual Core System Board
Dual Core Intel 3.0ghz proc
Windows XP SP2
Problem:
Mysteriously a week after upgrading my motherboard and processor and everything had been working fine, my secondary hard drive disappears from Windows. The system board detects it with no error,the drives spins up, but Windows no longer sees it. I have used several free utilities to recovery partitions and hard drives, all of which see the drive and files just fine. I even Purchased Paragon Partition Manager which sees the drive with folders and files and recovers it. Computer Manager disk manager sees the drive as unallocated space which is not true since it still has all of it files etc..), and it is initialized. STILL Windows refuses to cooperate and show me the drive in explorer. I havea feeling somehting is corrupt in my OS, but…
The only things I have not tried is a re-install of XP, or a re-install of SP2.
I’m at wits end here. I am hoping for some advice before I go buy another drive and try copying the data to it.
Any suggestions for what I might be missing here?
