drive recognize

[Tsai]

Hi All,

I have 2 HDs C & D;
I reformatted Drive C and install win 2000 from scratch.
After installation, Win 2000 could not recognize all the
data from drive D. What is the problem?
PLs help me, since I have a bunch of data that had been
migrated to D before the installation (for backing up
purposes)

Thanks

 

[milt]

Very interesting situation. There are two physical hard
drives connected to the system. Drive C is where the W2K
OS has been installed and drive D is the slave to drive
C. W2K can recognize FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions.
Does the system recognize the D drive as a slave? If not,
this is a CMOS situation. You indicate that 'Win 2000
could not recognize all of the data from drive D.' Does
it recognize any of the data? Was drive D a part of a
dynamic disk 'set' before the reformatting. If the answer
is yes, then all of the data is probably lost. If it was
part of a W98 system (for example) then don't despair.
What happens when you go into disk management (Right click
My Computer/Manage/Disk Management)? Does the Disk
Management tool recognize drive D as Disk 1 whereas drive
C is Disk 0 (zero)? If not, then sounds like a CMOS
problem again or the drive E was not recognized when the
W2K system started. Hope these questions help you. milt

 

[Dgreen]

-----Original Message-----
Hi All,

I have 2 HDs C & D;
I reformatted Drive C and install win 2000 from scratch.
After installation, Win 2000 could not recognize all the
data from drive D. What is the problem?
PLs help me, since I have a bunch of data that had been
migrated to D before the installation (for backing up
purposes)

Thanks
.

I believe you need to check your jumper settings on the D
drive to slave... your system bios by default does auto
detect on IDE drives. once thats done, on boot the screen
should list your drives or use your win98 boot disk and do
Fdisk to display partitions/fdisk or go into CMOS to make
sure its there.
D.