Recovering Secondary Drive

[Tom D]

My primary harddrive failed today, so I installed a new
80G drive and installed Win2k on that drive (Win2k was
installed on the previous "dead" drive). I am unable to
access my secondary 10G drive now. In Disk Management,
the secondary drive shows up, but is marked as:

Disk 1
Unknown
9.32 GB
Online

9.32GB
Unallocated

Is there any way to access this drive without losing the
files that reside on it? I have been searching the
Newsgroup for hours now and hope that I am simply using
the wrong search criteria. Any help that anyone can
provide would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,

Tom D

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Tom.

Did you look in the Help file for Disk Management? Try searching for
"foreign disks/moving to another computer". Yeah, I know it's not "another
computer", but the steps here ought to get your old drive recognized in its
new configuration. (You HAVE checked cables, jumpers, etc., I assume.) It
might be a simple as Action | Rescan Disks, but sometimes it can be more
tricky than that.

If the old drive is actually bad, or the file system on it is so messed up
that Windows can't read it normally, you may need a third-party solution,
such as R-Studio ($79 download) from www.r-tt.com. I used that successfully
a couple of months ago to recover files from a volume that Chkdsk could not
read.

RC

 

[Querty]

I suspect this is related to a problem I'm having too - see my post
"Partitioning - strange results in w2k" of 26th. I've taken it up with MS
and will post a response when I get one, but if you are able to uninstall
and install NT it will probably read the drive fine, which would enable you
to make backups etc / copy everything to the new drive. This is obviously
not a long term solution, however!
Q

 

[Tom D]

RC & Q -

Thanks for your responses and suggestions. RC, I
downloaded R-Studio and was able to recover almost
everything that I needed. The rest can be rebuilt without
much effort. You guys saved my butt - I had just finished
creating my website and was preparing to upload the files
to the server when I had the hard drive failure. I was
about to jump off a bridge after losing weeks of work.
(Yeah, I know....BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP....) Lesson
learned the hard way. Thanks again for your help!

Regards,

Tom D