[ragnarok83]

Hello,

I recently purchased a new parts for a computer and built it from scratch. The only parts that I did not purchase were the hard drives. I have 3 hard drives:

1. a 400 gig seagate sata(This is where I have the operating system installed, xp home)
2. a 250 gig seagate sata
3. a 1 terabyte western digital

All these drives had been formatted and have been running fine on my old computer.

After I built my new machine I added the 3 hard drives and went to boot up. I went into the bios and checked to make sure all 3 of them were recognized, and they were. I changed the boot priority to the exact same setup as my old one and was able to load up windows without any problems at all.

The problem comes when I go to "my computer" and check out the setup. The 400 gig and the 250 gig seagate drives show up but the 1 terabyte drive does not show up in "my computer." I went into device manager. The 1 terabyte drive did show up in device manger as well. I checked out to see if there was any issue there. It said that the device was working properly when I went into the properties of the hard drive.

I then went into disk management to check that out as well. Under this location it said that the disk was unreadable. Also I noticed that it was listed as a dynamic disk while the other drives were listed as basic disks. I dont know if that makes a difference or not.

I have critical information dealing with my work that is saved under this drive so reformatting is not an option. If it is a worst case scenario is there some type of way I can retrieve the data and then reformat?

Just a head's up, I have xp pro.