Rick,

I can't believe how easy that was.  I unplugged my main drive "C", and
plugged in my backup "G" and changed the jumpers.  Put my Western Digital
Lifeguard disk in and booted.  Followed the prompts to run Lifeguard and
formatted the drive as a boot drive.

Then I reconnected my "C" drive, changed the jumpers back on my "G"
drive, and now it's recognized and ready to be my new backup drive and
I'm booting with my "C" drive again.

Thanks for your help.

Diane Kroeckel

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:43:04 -0500 Richard Glazier
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> The only time I have seen that error is on SD digital picture cards
> that
> had extensive damage.  (These appear as hard drives in a card reader
> in XP.)
>
> I would hook the Harddrive up alone jumpered as a "stand alone",
> single, or "master"
> (as appropriate) on the first MB port, on a cable by itself.
> If your CD drive already shares that cable, jumper them BOTH
> correctly for that...
> (If you do a floppy boot, forget the CD drive...)
>
> Set your BIOS boot order correctly and then:
> Boot to the WD CD and run the diagnostics.  They are also available
> on
> the WD site. They might have a floppy version, or even an ISO to
> burn the CD
> yourself. (Some sites have the ISOs...)
>
> Basically what I was trying to say above was to simplify the system
> as much as
> possible (as far as drives).  Write down all the OLD jumper settings
> an ALL drives,
> and where the cables went... (It get confusing fast...)
> You might even catch an old mistake while documenting how things
> "are" when
> you started these new steps...
>
> DO NOT do anything if a GOOD drive is CONNECTED in the system, as
> drive
> letters CAN AND DO change in these utilities, and especially when
> drives are acting up...
>
> Do not do any "work" on the wrong drive !!  ;-(
>
>                                               Rick Glazier
>
> From: "Diane Kroeckel" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: "raw" hard drive
> > I have an HP computer running WinXP2 with a 120GB HD.
> >
> > I used Western Digital's Data Lifeguard program to ready a 80GB HD
> for
> > backup.  After doing so it can't be read and needs to be
> formatted.
> > Windows is unable to format it.
> >
> > I went into Dos to format it and it said the drive was raw and to
> use the
> > /fs switch to specify the file system.  I don't know what to do.
>

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