R
ric_deez
Hi there,
I am running Windows XP SP2 Home Edition on a Compaq Presario. I also
have a Lacie D2 Firewire 400/800 USB2 device which is connected via a
firewire 400 port. The Lacie has a 250GB NTFS partition which I
attempted to resize to create room for a 50GB FAT32 partition that I
could also access from my Mac.
I used PM 8.0 to do this and it got stuck at 62% and hung. After
waiting for a few hours without making any further progress I aborted
the process. I then discovered that Windows XP was no longer able to
read the Lacie drive, which failed to mount even after a reboot. It
turns out that MS has built a 30GB limitation on FAT32 volumes under
Windows 2000/XP. That also seems to explain why the process hung at
62%... Pity PM doesn't seem to know about this!!!
Anyway, I now have about 80GB of data on the Lacie which has been
trashed as I don't seem to be able to get Windows to mount this drive.
I am using a product called Handy Recovery 2.0 but it seems to take
quite a while to recover partition information so I don't really know
how this is going to pan out.
I would love to get some advice on the following:
- Alternatives to Handy Recovery (just in case)
- Any advice on how to get my Lacie in a state where it can be seen by
the OS
I assume that the partition table on it has been fried so I am guessing
that I will need to recover the files (any files?!?) to another disk
(using handy recovery et al) and then re-format the Lacie and start
again. The problem is how do I do this if Windows does not seem to see
the drive? Disk Manager seems to think it is there but no properties
are accessible.
Any advice would be greatly welcomed.
Best Regards.
Ric
I am running Windows XP SP2 Home Edition on a Compaq Presario. I also
have a Lacie D2 Firewire 400/800 USB2 device which is connected via a
firewire 400 port. The Lacie has a 250GB NTFS partition which I
attempted to resize to create room for a 50GB FAT32 partition that I
could also access from my Mac.
I used PM 8.0 to do this and it got stuck at 62% and hung. After
waiting for a few hours without making any further progress I aborted
the process. I then discovered that Windows XP was no longer able to
read the Lacie drive, which failed to mount even after a reboot. It
turns out that MS has built a 30GB limitation on FAT32 volumes under
Windows 2000/XP. That also seems to explain why the process hung at
62%... Pity PM doesn't seem to know about this!!!
Anyway, I now have about 80GB of data on the Lacie which has been
trashed as I don't seem to be able to get Windows to mount this drive.
I am using a product called Handy Recovery 2.0 but it seems to take
quite a while to recover partition information so I don't really know
how this is going to pan out.
I would love to get some advice on the following:
- Alternatives to Handy Recovery (just in case)
- Any advice on how to get my Lacie in a state where it can be seen by
the OS
I assume that the partition table on it has been fried so I am guessing
that I will need to recover the files (any files?!?) to another disk
(using handy recovery et al) and then re-format the Lacie and start
again. The problem is how do I do this if Windows does not seem to see
the drive? Disk Manager seems to think it is there but no properties
are accessible.
Any advice would be greatly welcomed.
Best Regards.
Ric