eetaylog Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 My boot disk died on me the other day so i spent the day yesterday reinstalling XP and all my drivers & codecs on my system. Ive got 2 x 1Tb internal sata drives as well (samsung spinpoint F1's) that i keep all my films and music on, but when i tried to import them in disk management, one of them was fine, but the other one failed. Theyre only a few weeks old, so i dont think theres a physical problem with the failed disk, and i dont really fancy formatting it ripping all my films again. Any ideas? my system is: XP ProGigabyte moboAMD X2 processorGeForce 7600 GPUNovaT-500 TV card2Gb RAM500Gb boot HDD2 x 1Tb Dynamic disks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I hate to say I told you so....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 ? do you mean about not using RAID0? theyre not raided any more, i got rid of that setup, and am just using single disk setups. was in the middle of backing them up, but had to reinstall xp while i was doing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Ah right. What do you mean by 'failed' though. Got a screenshot from disk management? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 (edited) not right now, im at work, but basically i reinstalled xp on a new boot disk, then tried to import and activate the 2 foreign disks in disk management. one of them is now visible in my computer (with a drive letter etc), but i got an error when importing the other one, which said it had failed to import the disk, and to refer to the log for details. the log gave an 'unknown reason' though! im tempted to just reinstall xp again and see if it does it again. Edited March 9, 2009 by eetaylog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutley Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 why do you need to import them? ive never done that before when ive rebuilt my pc's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 ive completely reinstalled xp, so the OS is seeing them as foreign disks as its assuming they were built on another system. just trying to activate them, but its being a pain in the a*se. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Were they configured as basic or dynamic volumes? Have you installed the latest xp SP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 Were they configured as basic or dynamic volumes? Have you installed the latest xp SP? both dynamic. yes, SP3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutley Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 as i said from a complete reinstall of XP i have never ever had to do this even if i take a drive from one xp machine and into another.. internal sata or otherwise.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 as i said from a complete reinstall of XP i have never ever had to do this even if i take a drive from one xp machine and into another.. internal sata or otherwise.... that's pretty irrelevant as he has an issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidrick Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Did you install the SATA motherboard driver? Are they the latest version for the website, rather than the one supplied on the CD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutley Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 as i said from a complete reinstall of XP i have never ever had to do this even if i take a drive from one xp machine and into another.. internal sata or otherwise.... that's pretty irrelevant as he has an issue not really as he shouldnt have to do it in the first place. he may be doing something he shouldnt be in the first place is what i was implying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidrick Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 as i said from a complete reinstall of XP i have never ever had to do this even if i take a drive from one xp machine and into another.. internal sata or otherwise.... that's pretty irrelevant as he has an issue not really as he shouldnt have to do it in the first place. he may be doing something he shouldnt be in the first place is what i was implying. If things worked like they were meant to, then the majority of us IT geeks would be out of a job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 Did you install the SATA motherboard driver? Are they the latest version for the website, rather than the one supplied on the CD? i installed the driver that came with the motherboard. shouldve done the trick idve thought. whats interesting is that i installed XP on a spare HDD that i had laying around as a test beforehand, and it saw the disks no problem. ive now installed it onto a new disk (exactly the same model and size), and now im having this problem. Very odd. i can only think that one of the 2 disks mightve been unplugged when i installed the OS, so its got an issue with importing a disk that used to be part of the same group? as i said from a complete reinstall of XP i have never ever had to do this even if i take a drive from one xp machine and into another.. internal sata or otherwise.... that's pretty irrelevant as he has an issue not really as he shouldnt have to do it in the first place. he may be doing something he shouldnt be in the first place is what i was implying. If things worked like they were meant to, then the majority of us IT geeks would be out of a job! tell me about it. nothings EVER straight forward. im thiking of going and living in the woods away from technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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