May be a conflict between the two drives.
1. Re-check the drive jumper to insure a match with your current config.
2. Try re-Detecting the drive in BIOS and see if it is being correctly
identified.
3. If that doesn't help try setting the BIOS to factory defaults with a
power down.
4. If that doesn't help, try placing the drive on a Secondary channel.
Post back with results...
"Bret McBride" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:042d01c3cc5f$b54010e0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I just completed installing a new 120Gb hard drive to my
> system as the master. The old 30Gb was the boot drive,
> but was moved to slave. I'm running Win2K Pro as the
> operating system on this computer.
>
> Here's what happened...
> My new 120Gb drive is up and running and Win2K is
> installed. It's drive C. My old 30Gb drive is working okay
> and is drive D.
>
> I load the nVidia drivers off of D. No problems. I can
> also see all the old data and program directories on drive
> D.
>
> Then, I start the long, tedious process of updating my
> Win2K via the Windows Update site. The CD I have is pre
> any service packs. I finish all the updates including
> service pack 4.
>
> My 30Gb drive D is now being reported as an unformatted
> 7.8Gb drive. I'm not sure how much free space was on it,
> although 8Gb sounds about right. At no point did I create
> or delete partitions, and I'm not about to format the
> thing. Using the Windows Disk Management tools, it looks
> like a healthy 7.8Gb partition.
>
> First, any ideas on what happened?
> Second, any ideas on how to fix it?
>
> I'd like to get a bit more of the data back off the drive
> without yanking it out of the machine and putting it into
> a another computer, although that is an option.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
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