My new PC cant find my old harddrive.

[pmw508]

Dear experts on hardware and simular strange topics !

This is my story :

I had an AMD-PC with a 150 GB-disk and we were all very happy until one day the () PC stopped and a smell of smoke forced oss to place my sons beloved maskin in the garage, and the disaster was complete.

Now, since I dont want my teenager to commit suicide and quit school, I purchased a new PC with an Intel-processor and an other brand of motherboard.

Installing the PC with all its artifacts came out nice (except for the CD-player) ... but the old 150GB-disk dont want to show itself the way I want.

The disks are Master (the new) and Slave (the old) on the same IDE-cable (brand new).

At some time I managed to, via the installation-CD, do a chkdsk on the old.

As you can see in the attached file I can view the disk in the XP-DiskManager but I cant do anything with it.

It also have no Volume-label

In the help I can read about the DiskPart-command, but I'm a bit scared to use it because the 150GB-disk contains somewhat 100 GB VERY IMPORTANT files and stuff.

Best regards and thank you in advance !

Per-Martin Wretlind

(Sweden)MSFN_OldDisk.zip

[jroc]

if it shows up in the 'disk management' you have to make it active..then you can label the drive(right click properties)...need to right click on the drive in 'disk management' and 'mark partition as active'...once its active...and shows up in 'my computer'..then you can right click it there and change the label.

Edited November 4, 2005 by jroc

[pmw508]

Hi thanks for the quick replay !

... But unfortunatly when I rightclick on the disk all options except "Delete partition" is dimmed out. If it had been that easy I wouldnt bother this forum.

[bledd]

try taking out your CD drives, and putting the hard drive on the cd drive port instead.. -as Master or Cable Select

[pmw508]

.. Sorry no change, , the rightclick-menu just as before .... Thanks anyway for the tip !

[bledd]

sounds like the hard drive is fried,

are you able to try it in another pc?