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July 28, 2007 at 09:50 AM
brucehusker

Getting XP Pro to recognize an additional HD after a rebuild

by brucehusker . Updated 18 years, 10 months ago

I recently had a faulty memory module fry a motherboard. I replaced it, along with a few other components, and created a new system drive with a previously used aux drive from the old system. That drive died and I bought a new WD SATA drive to replace it. All is well except I have one Aux drive that the motherboard recognizes correctly, XP sees it, but disk management reports that 128 gb is healthy, 337gb is unallocated and the file system is RAW. I would really like to get this back intact because there are some very important files I’d like to save. I’ve been poking around for a few weeks trying to come up with an answer, to no avail. Chkdsk won’t run because it’s RAW, and none of the disk management tools have any effect. Is there a solution or do I just have to bite the bullet and reformat? Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards…Bruce

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