Hi guys,
I have a two hard drive multi OS system.
in my Win2000SP4, on of my drives is not accessible. In MyComputer it shows as "Local Drive" and when i double click on it i get a messege that says, "The drive is not formated, do u wanna format it now". while that drive is fully accessible in other OS and has functioning data in it. The same drive was fully accessible in this same Win2k as well, but after having some updates this problem appeared.
Would some one plz help me.
Thanx.

- What are the other operating systems?
- What is the file system on the invisible drive?
- What are the updates you performed?


"shafiq" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi guys,
> I have a two hard drive multi OS system.
> in my Win2000SP4, on of my drives is not accessible. In MyComputer it
shows as "Local Drive" and when i double click on it i get a messege that
says, "The drive is not formated, do u wanna format it now". while that
drive is fully accessible in other OS and has functioning data in it. The
same drive was fully accessible in this same Win2k as well, but after having
some updates this problem appeared.
> Would some one plz help me.
> Thanx.

-The Other OSs are WinXP, Win98SE, Windows2003Srvr.
-The file systems are FAT32. (but i believe that's not the problem cuz other FATs are showing)
-Well i downloaded and updated my Win2k after a long time, i have SP4 now. But i did remove and undelete some updates which didn't work and then re-applied them.
Thanx for any help.

"Shafiq" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> -The Other OSs are WinXP, Win98SE, Windows2003Srvr.
> -The file systems are FAT32. (but i believe that's not the problem cuz
other FATs are showing)
> -Well i downloaded and updated my Win2k after a long time, i have SP4 now.
But i did remove and undelete some updates which didn't work and then
re-applied them.
> Thanx for any help.

If your other OSs readily recognise the disk in question then there must be
something wrong with your Win2000 installation. I would probably do this, in
this order, moving to the next step if the preceding step was unsuccessful.
- Run sfc.exe (System File Checker) under Win2000.
- Run chkdsk.exe under WinXP
- While under XP, copy the contents of the problem partition somewhere else,
then reformat the partition and restore the data.
- Reload Win2000.