secondary HDD comes up as UNFORMATTED
Windows XP Home on a 40gig hdd is corrupted, so i hooked up a 120gig hdd as rpimary master and installed windows on it. the file format is FAT32 on the two Hdd's. when i hooked up the 40gig to transfer files to the 120gig it shows as ROW partition.
Windows XP Home on a 40gig hdd is corrupted, so i hooked up a 120gig hdd as rpimary master and installed windows on it. the file format is FAT32 on the two Hdd's. when i hooked up the 40gig to transfer files to the 120gig it shows as ROW partition.
Tried the following:
1. tried booting into ms-dos and copy the files over. i can see the files, xcopy can copy some of them over but it stops: incorrect path, not all files could be copied.
2. tried Partition magic: D:\ shows up as unformatted again.
i know the files are there, there are no bad sectors (from scandisk in dos), but howcome i could see them only in dos? why does it show up as unformatted even though it is formatted (FAT32)?
EDIT: I have tried to hoock up the 40gig HDD as Master and then slave, pretty much any possible IDE config on this computer.
I have tried FDISK /MBR to clear the mbr, but still nothing.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Tried the following:
1. tried booting into ms-dos and copy the files over. i can see the files, xcopy can copy some of them over but it stops: incorrect path, not all files could be copied.
2. tried Partition magic: D:\ shows up as unformatted again.
i know the files are there, there are no bad sectors (from scandisk in dos), but howcome i could see them only in dos? why does it show up as unformatted even though it is formatted (FAT32)?
EDIT: I have tried to hoock up the 40gig HDD as Master and then slave, pretty much any possible IDE config on this computer.
I have tried FDISK /MBR to clear the mbr, but still nothing.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
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