HELP! Hard drive problem

[legionserial]

I put my hard drive with all my tunes backed up in my computer today after rebuilding. Only it's not showing up n my computer. It's in device manager, and I can see it in disk management, but listed as 'foreign' and 'dynamic'. I'm a little worried. I've been doing a bit of reading and I'm led to beleive I can't convert this back to a basic drive with total data loss. This hard drive has all my music on it. Everything. If I lose the data I lose all my music and well.....the less said about what happens then the better.

 

[legionserial]

duplicate post due to slowassed website

 

[jmorris]

try placing the drive in an external hard drive case, see if it will see it that way

 

[PhilGood]

Did you right click on it in the drive manager and use "import foreign disks"?

 

[Mindset]

I put my hard drive with all my tunes backed up in my computer today after rebuilding. Only it's not showing up n my computer. It's in device manager, and I can see it in disk management, but listed as 'foreign' and 'dynamic'. I'm a little worried. I've been doing a bit of reading and I'm led to beleive I can't convert this back to a basic drive with total data loss. This hard drive has all my music on it. Everything. If I lose the data I lose all my music and well.....the less said about what happens then the better.

Yeah, when changing major things like motherboard, you'll get that. What about the master boot record on the second drive (backup)? That's why I usually back up data, not the whole drive if that's where windows located.

 

[legionserial]

Did you right click on it in the drive manager and use "import foreign disks"?

I have now. And it completely solved the problem. Thanks

 

[legionserial]

Yeah, when changing major things like motherboard, you'll get that. What about the master boot record on the second drive (backup)? That's why I usually back up data, not the whole drive if that's where windows located.

Interestingly, the other IDE drive in my pc that contains the MBR (how did you know I named it 'backup'?), was completely fine. i can even still boot to the same windows install that was on it before, not that I want to. That's a fucked up emergency install that doesn't work very well but lets me access all my drives if i have dire problem. I booted it once since putting the new mobo in and obviously it started going nuts over drivers, so i shut it down because i didnt need the hassle at the time.

 

[UnityRecordings]

Another option would be to change the jumper setting to "slave" versus "master" or "cable select"