XP Not recognizing Hard Drives

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Guest

I had 2K and XP as dual boot. I have two separate hard drives. When XP was up I could never access the C and other several other drives. I decided to re-install XP but accidently did it as an upgrade instead of a new install. So of course it over wrote 2000. My problem is that now I have no access to my C drive at all now. Is there a way for me to go back to 2K or am I going to need to just reformat the two hard drives? I am a graphic designer so I have a lot of serious programs as well as work that I can't afford to loose.

Any assistance someone could give would be greatly appreciated.

Cecelia
 
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Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers

Hi,

If you accidentally upgraded the Win2K installation, there is no way back to
it as that is a one-way ticket. The ability to revert to an earlier system
only applies to upgrades from a Win9x installation.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Cecelia said:
I had 2K and XP as dual boot. I have two separate hard drives. When XP was
up I could never access the C and other several other drives. I decided to
re-install XP but accidently did it as an upgrade instead of a new install.
So of course it over wrote 2000. My problem is that now I have no access to
my C drive at all now. Is there a way for me to go back to 2K or am I going
to need to just reformat the two hard drives? I am a graphic designer so I
have a lot of serious programs as well as work that I can't afford to loose.
 
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Guest

Rick,
Thanks for your reply. Are there any solutions as to how I can get access to my drives. What is driving me crazy is that it will allow me to install another copy of XP on my C drive which I have done. But I can't access the drive itself. Any suggestions?
 
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Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers

Hi Cecelia,

What about when you boot the installation installed to C:\?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Cecelia said:
Rick,
Thanks for your reply. Are there any solutions as to how I can get access
to my drives. What is driving me crazy is that it will allow me to install
another copy of XP on my C drive which I have done. But I can't access the
drive itself. Any suggestions?
 
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Guest

Rick,
All of the installations were to the C: drive. That is what is so weird. It will allow you to install to C: but not let me access C:. I can't even access the boot file so that I can remove all the other installations. Very frustrated.
 

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