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Need Help With HDD's

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Brad Mcallister - 25 Mar 2004 07:02 GMT
Ok guys, here is one for you.

I just upgraded from 2000 to XP Home. I had two HDDs.
When I upgraded to XP it would not reconize my 2nd drive
(which is a Western Digital 100G), there is about 70G of
data that I need to get. Ok, what I have done so far,
checked BIOS, BIOS sees the drive no problem. Also the
jumpers look correct from the diagram on the HDD. When I
get into XP it is not reconized. When I go into disk
Management it sees the disk, but says Disk 1  Dynamic and
then below that it says Foreign. I have no idea how to
fix this. I have checked on WD's website and after
looking for some kind of drivers they said contact
microsoft. So hopefully someone can help me. Thanks for
helping...
Carey Frisch  [MVP] - 25 Mar 2004 07:32 GMT
One cannot upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Home.
Only Windows XP Pro can upgrade over Windows 2000.
You'll need to perform a "clean install".

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Windows XP Supported Upgrade Paths
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292607&Product=winxp

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 25 Mar 2004 15:54 GMT
This happened to me also,  XP is strange in this manner it
seems to want to recognise disks in a particular way.  Do
not format or reinstall until you have tried my (and any
other suggestions)

This is what I configured originally 2 hdd and 2 cdroms.  
I had to reconfigure so both hdd were on the master
channels of the ide primary and secondary.
give it a shot.

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