Ok - I am a newbie and not technology savvy - so flame away -

Using windows XP Pro - hard drive crashed so installed new hard drive - the old drive is now a slave drive and connected properly - the disk managment tool sees the old hard drive and no letter is assigned - when I right click the drive all choices are greyed out and only choice is delete partiion. I saw one post on this forum where the answer seemed to be to change it to a dynamic drive. When I try that i get ' Active partition no free space on partion'

I have been thinking about this for a week - can you help please?

Ok - I am a newbie and not technology savvy - so flame away -

Using windows XP Pro - hard drive crashed so installed new hard drive - the old drive is now a slave drive and connected properly - the disk managment tool sees the old hard drive and no letter is assigned - when I right click the drive all choices are greyed out and only choice is delete partiion. I saw one post on this forum where the answer seemed to be to change it to a dynamic drive. When I try that i get ' Active partition no free space on partion'

I have been thinking about this for a week - can you help please?

The partition probably got corrupted. Please delete the partition, recreate the partition, format it and try again.

The partition probably got corrupted. Please delete the partition, recreate the partition, format it and try again.

That's what Bill would say hehehe

And wont this toast all my files and data that I am trying to save? Seriously - is there no other help here?

cagouillard,

It will cost you money (not much - depending on the value of your data!)

Try active partition recovery or active uneraser from these people. I have both and they work well.

No guarantees, but they have trial versions of each. If the trial version can recover your partition/data it will tell you and then you can purchase. Remember to read the manual first - and you may have lost most of your data by trying to set as slave. In your situation it's best to do nothing with the hardware until you have decent recovery software, anyway, give them a spin - I'd start with partition recovery first..

link to website..Active-Recovery