Lost slave drive after reformat/fresh install of windows 2000pro

[Michael]

I'm stumped!

I had a 40 gig drive as master, installed a 120 gig as
slave for data storage and ran great this way for a year.
Started having system crashes am told because I frequently
evaluate new software and then uninstall it. Began to get
pretty frequent so I backedup the master onto to slave and
happily reformatted the master. I cannot access anything
on the slave now, it has no assigned drive letter. The
device manager shows it is there and working properly and
has the same configuration as before (printed a system
resource report prior to reformat). I accessed admin
tools and disk manager shows it with all available space,
and unallocated. What help I've found advised to use
device manager to uninstall, then reboot, which resulted
in it being found as new hardware, set it up with drivers
again. Still cant access it. Western digital, the
manufacturer, has a support website that sent me to
Microsoft and they want BIG $ just to answer the phone.
Searched previous posts found help if only I had NFTS file
system but it was FAT32.

Any Idea's?

 

[I'm Dan]

I'm stumped!

I had a 40 gig drive as master, installed a 120 gig as
slave for data storage and ran great this way for a year.
Started having system crashes am told because I frequently
evaluate new software and then uninstall it. Began to get
pretty frequent so I backedup the master onto to slave and
happily reformatted the master. I cannot access anything
on the slave now, it has no assigned drive letter. The
device manager shows it is there and working properly and
has the same configuration as before (printed a system
resource report prior to reformat). I accessed admin
tools and disk manager shows it with all available space,
and unallocated. What help I've found advised to use
device manager to uninstall, then reboot, which resulted
in it being found as new hardware, set it up with drivers
again. Still cant access it. Western digital, the
manufacturer, has a support website that sent me to
Microsoft and they want BIG $ just to answer the phone.
Searched previous posts found help if only I had NFTS
file system but it was FAT32.

Any Idea's?

I've had success with Mikkelsen's findpart.exe utility
(http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm).

 

[Michael]

-----Original Message-----



I've had success with Mikkelsen's findpart.exe utility
(http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm).


That's great Dan! Now, if I only understood how to run

this untility.....Mikkelsen provides zero documentation
and I'm a complete novice. Thanks for the help!

 

[Svend Olaf Mikkelsen]

That's great Dan! Now, if I only understood how to run
this untility.....Mikkelsen provides zero documentation
and I'm a complete novice. Thanks for the help!

Well, that is not correct.

You however can do:


findpart all fp.txt


and mail me the file fp.txt. From the original message I got the
impression that it would be possible that there is a Windows 2000 128
GB problem present, but I suggest you just run the search, and mail me
the output file.

 

[Michael]

-----Original Message-----


Well, that is not correct.

You however can do:


findpart all fp.txt


and mail me the file fp.txt. From the original message I got the
impression that it would be possible that there is a Windows 2000 128
GB problem present, but I suggest you just run the search, and mail me
the output file.

Thanks very much for your offers of assistance. I was
able to solve my problem with cgssecurity's Testdrive
program. Took some time but it's analyzation determined
boot sector had be overwritten and recreated it for me,
Voila! All my data is intact and accessable. Thanks
again!