After a fresh reinstall of Vista x64, I can no longer access my 2nd HD. It doesn't show up in Explorer. It does show in Disk Management as "Unallocated" and "Not initialized." I don't want to initialize it because it has data on it.
I reinstalled Vista x64 on my HP desktop because I'd been having so many problems I decided to try installing Win7 over it. I wanted to start with a fresh install of Vista to reduce chances of failure of 7 (which means I would resort to a new system).
I used HP's recovery software. At first I ran it off the D partition on Disk 0 but twice ran into memory errors and installation failed. Then tried from the recovery disks. Also had errors. So I disconnected the second drive I had installed a year ago and ran recovery from D and it installed fine.
However, all my personal data is on 2 partitions on the second drive (Disk 1).
Disk 0 contains drive C and D. C contains Vista x64 OS and D is the recovery partiition.
Dist 1 contained 2 partitions: I had named them N and R. N contains large video files. R is all my other personal data. All Personal Folders (Documents, Pictures, Music etc.) had previously pointed to R. (I don't care about the drive letters; I can reassign those once I get it going.)
Disk 0 came with the HP. It is a Samsung HD 501L (500 GB)
Disk 1 is a WD 20EARS (Green 2 TB disk). I added this a year ago and it has worked fine.
I do have backups of all my personal files on an external drive, but not the videos. I would prefer not to lose those, or have to go through a restore of my backups either.
Anyone have suggestions for how to get Vista to recognize this drive as initialized, partitioned, and full of data?
Thanks.
I reinstalled Vista x64 on my HP desktop because I'd been having so many problems I decided to try installing Win7 over it. I wanted to start with a fresh install of Vista to reduce chances of failure of 7 (which means I would resort to a new system).
I used HP's recovery software. At first I ran it off the D partition on Disk 0 but twice ran into memory errors and installation failed. Then tried from the recovery disks. Also had errors. So I disconnected the second drive I had installed a year ago and ran recovery from D and it installed fine.
However, all my personal data is on 2 partitions on the second drive (Disk 1).
Disk 0 contains drive C and D. C contains Vista x64 OS and D is the recovery partiition.
Dist 1 contained 2 partitions: I had named them N and R. N contains large video files. R is all my other personal data. All Personal Folders (Documents, Pictures, Music etc.) had previously pointed to R. (I don't care about the drive letters; I can reassign those once I get it going.)
Disk 0 came with the HP. It is a Samsung HD 501L (500 GB)
Disk 1 is a WD 20EARS (Green 2 TB disk). I added this a year ago and it has worked fine.
I do have backups of all my personal files on an external drive, but not the videos. I would prefer not to lose those, or have to go through a restore of my backups either.
Anyone have suggestions for how to get Vista to recognize this drive as initialized, partitioned, and full of data?
Thanks.