Drive not showing up in WinXP?

WCES Ryan

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OK I will first be upfront and admit something I know I shouldn't have done. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to try and hotswap a couple of SATA drives to see if it would work. It didn't.

My problem now is that neither of the drives appear to be recognized in Windows. When booting I see a number of disk errors in the event log, none of which are very descriptive.

The first one is an event ID 51 "An error was detected on device during a paging operation.". My understanding is there should be a device ID present in that error message, but it does not appear.

The other is event ID 11 "The driver detected a controller error on ." Again, there should be a device listed, but I do not have one present.

I do not see the hard drive in device manager or in disk management.

I have tried to find a relevant registry entry to manually uninstall the disk, which I believe I was successful in, but after a reboot, the entries had returned.

I've tried using a different SATA port and I get the same result.

I have tried installing both drives in another PC, and both immediately work fine, with all data intact.

I haven't been able to find any similar issues online to help troubleshoot. Would anyone here happen to have any advice? Anything will help :)
 
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I'm definitely seeing the drives in the registry, I can see the model numbers listed under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi, the appropriate drives seem to be properly detected when they are plugged in, and disappear when I switch to the other drive.

I feel I'm just missing something minor, any advice th at anyone can offer is always appreciated.
 
Well, if all else fails, try running Western Digital Diagnostic on it ( doesnt matter who made the drive) and write all zeros to it. I have had pretty good success recovering borked HD that way. Obviously yuo lose all data on that drive, and hopefully others have a better, easier, simpler fix for ya, otherwise consider this a free bump....
 
Does the motherboard bios see the drives? If it does not, something may be wrong with the drives.
Can you hook up another drive to those sata ports? just to make sure they work...
 
BIOS definitely sees the drives, and the ports definitely work, both have been tested. I've even made it as far as verifying that Windows can see the drives as registry entries change to the appropriate drive model number when I change them out. Just need to figure out what I can do to clear whatever is causing the errors to occur.
 
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