Hi.. A little help please? Can't access my slave harddisk.... maybe it has a windows password... how can i access it?
like it was there one day and now it's not? do you see the drive listed when it boots in bios? what about does it show up in device manager?
check in the bios if it's listed as the secondary hard disk. make sure the jumper is set correctly as well. if the jumper is correct and it aint displaying in the bios it's probably faulty
check the jumpher, of the slave and master. i still remember, once i have wrong jumpher settings in the cd rom, and it affected the slave hdd. also try checking the power and data cables, they are properly inserted or not!
the thing is.. we bought a new harddisk, after installing the OS we can't open the files in the old harddisk but we can see it.. just can't move it and open it.
have a look at your manufacturers website (both the hard-disk & motherboard), some hard-disk are weird. once i just brought a brand new sata drive, but until i downloaded and install this app from the man. homepage it would not show up in windows. also if your running 2 diff types of harddrives (ie 1 IDE & 1 SATA) u will need to set your bios up accordingly.
i had this issue . Some disk protect utility in the old hard disk caused it for me .. did you have norton system works or any such softwares in your old hard disk ?
Yes.. I have... but how can I delete it? I dunno, but when I access the other user account from the old hardisk (w/o password) it works
Usually when you turn what was the primary drive into a secondary drive you need to move off all the files that you want to save and then format it without an operating sytem before it will work properly. Since I am from the school of DOS I normally wipe it clean using fdisk and then format it it. Those jumpers mentioned earlier are very important also. Newer SATA drives do not use jumpers as there is only one channel per connector. If you need help with any of this post again.
if u take the new harddrive out, are u able to boot up your old one on its own? if it works on its own, try setting the new one as secondary and see if they both boot. if the second does not work, my guess would be that its mis-configured in the bios (ie the second hardrive is not set-up in bios)