Windows no longer sees audio on ny second drive after re-install

[Ptron]

Windows no longer sees audio on my second hard drive after re-install

I posted this on a couple of computer forums and have yet to get the answer to my troubles so I thought I'd throw this out to you guys cuz y'all are so nice. (It's related to computer recording in that if I don't get my computer working, I cant record )

I have two Hard drives on my computer. One with the OS (windows XP) and apps and one with my audio. Due to a series of problems I decided to wipe the OS drive and start over fresh. I disconnected the drive with the music on it to keep it safe from mishaps. After re-installing XP I still had some problems so I used a program called Killdisk to do an absolute wipe of the drive. Then I used a Windows 98 floppy to run fdisk /mbr to erase the master boot record, in case Killdisk didn't. I then installed XP without incident and everything seemed hunky-dory until I hooked the second drive back up. XP sees this drive and knows it's there but it says it isn't formatted What happened? Could erasing the master boot record on the master drive have erased it's knowledge of the slave drive? How do I get XP to see this whats on there?!?
Somebody on the computer forum put forth the idea that the drives may be formatted differently but I'm next to positive they're both NTFS. Dragon, can you add a face that looks frazzled?

Ptron

 

[duck]

I disconnected the drive with the music on it to keep it safe from mishaps

That really wasnt necessary.

If you have WinXP Go to "My Computer"
Right click on C: drive or D: drive. then click on properties and it will show either NTFS or Fat32, then you can check if there both the same.
Your Ntfs drive still should read and write to a fat32 drive anyway. So that shouldnt be the problem.

 

[Ptron]

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I disconnected the drive with the music on it to keep it safe from mishaps
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That really wasnt necessary.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

If you have WinXP Go to "My Computer"
Right click on C: drive or D: drive. then click on properties and it will show either NTFS or Fat32, then you can check if there both the same.

Actually, that's the whole problem. I can't because XP thinks the second drive is "raw"/unformatted/neither NTFS or Fat32. Anyway, the thread on the computer forum finally took off a bit and the "mismatched" file system theory has been pretty much ruled out. Heres the link if anyone's interested: http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198725 There's a couple of tangents but where it stands now is I'm pretty much screwed. I just can't quite wrap my head around how this happened. I mean, there it all was when I unhooked the drive, and when I hooked it back up, there it all wasn't. Computers suck

Ptron

 

[johnhoe]

Ptron... If you're sure that your data drive did have data on it then you probably have 1 of 2 problems

1) You havent got the right IDE jumper combination on your data drive (try removing CDROMS and placing data drive on secondary IDE port temporarily)
2) The data on the data drive has become corrupted and requires a reformat.
(Perhaps you removed the data drive without first powering the mobo down and got a spurious disc write)

As has already been mentioned WinXP can read/write in both Fat32 and NTFS so that is not the problem.