[Solved] SATA Hard Disk not showing in Windows XP

okay, I think the title tell it all
I use 2 OS which is windows 7 and windows xp
I’ve got 2 SATA HDD, one is Maxtor 460GB and another is seagate 640GB
the problem is that the seagate sata HDD is not showing up in the explorer (my computer) in windows XP, but it works well in Windows 7
I’ve already open the disk management in windows xp and [b]it does recognise] the seagate hdd but just state it as unallocated….
anyone could help me?
I hope so..
Answer #1
I think some reading is a good idea.
MBR, GPT.
Answer #2
What version of Windows XP? SP3?
Answer #3
unallocated is raw isn’t it?
try formatting to ntfs
could be end of the line for your hdd
i had a similar problem but my hdd was faulty
Answer #4
well, yes its windows xp sp3..
and fyi, it has a lot of data..
what is weird is that the hdd works well in windows 7 and not windows xp
I guess it has some kind of driver problem, sort of
any ideas guys?
Answer #5
I would recommend you to try chkdsk.
Answer #6
or reinstall the drive drivers on xp and check it
Answer #7
chkdsk not working…
reinstall driver? more info please…
Answer #8
It sounds like there are some partition problems on that drive. There could of been a partition fault which windoze 7 tried to fix and made it unreadable by XP.
I would be very careful what you do or you could lose your data. If you can, backup everything you don’t want to lose, to another drive if possible while you attempt to fix it. The problem is, if the partition has faults you might not be able to fix it. The only successful way is to delete the partitions and re-create them using some software which doesn’t get it wrong….like some software does.
I strongly recommend that you backup your data before proceeding. Don’t say you haven’t been warned!
Then you could try testdisk to see what it finds and see if it corrects it.
It’s unlikely to be a driver problem.
Answer #9
Mighty_Marvel replied: It sounds like there are some partition problems on that drive. There could of been a partition fault which windoze 7 tried to fix and made it unreadable by XP.
I would be very careful what you do or you could lose your data. If you can, backup everything you don't want to lose, to another drive if possible while you attempt to fix it. The problem is, if the partition has faults you might not be able to fix it. The only successful way is to delete the partitions and re-create them using some software which doesn't get it wrong....like some software does.
I strongly recommend that you backup your data before proceeding. Don't say you haven't been warned!
Then you could try testdisk to see what it finds and see if it corrects it.
It's unlikely to be a driver problem.
well, I guess it can’t be help..
that’s my last options actually, to backup all the files in other hdd and then re-create the hard disk partition…
emm, but the problem now is that I don’t have any extra HDD left lol.. but I guess its ok for now..
thanks alot guys for helping me out!
cheers!