win2k can't read NTFS partition

[Yang]

I am running dual boot windows 98/ windows 2000
Professional.

I have two hard drives. The first has three partitions: C:
(FAT32), DFAT32), FNTFS) The second drive has one
partition: EFAT32)

Windows 98 is on D:
Windows 2000 is on C:

My problem is that Windows 2000 will no longer recognize
my FNTFS) partition. This started yesterday after I had
booted to 98 to play an old game. When I restarted and
booted to Win2000, I found that my F: drive was
unreadable. It still appears in the "My Computer" folder,
but when its properties are displayed it has an unknown
file system and 0 bytes of free or used space.

I thought this was just a problem with the boot record so
I found an article on the microsoft support site (153973)
and used dskprobe.exe as described.

The problem was not solved. Next I downloaded some
shareware copies of recovery tools, "Active Partition
Recovery" and "Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS".

Both of these tools find the drive and list it as NTFS.
They also display the correct size of the drive and the
files in the drive.

My problem is that I don't have enough space in the other
drives to recover the 50+ Gigs of data from the F: drive.
I only have about 5 Gigs free.

Is there some way to get Windows 2000 to read the F: drive
again? Would it help if I installed PartitionMagic?



Thanks,
Yang

 

[Alphonse]

My advice, strongly stated, is that you find a way to back up *at very
least* that partition before you try anything else.


I am running dual boot windows 98/ windows 2000
Professional.

I have two hard drives. The first has three partitions: C:
(FAT32), DFAT32), FNTFS) The second drive has one
partition: EFAT32)

Windows 98 is on D:
Windows 2000 is on C:

My problem is that Windows 2000 will no longer recognize
my FNTFS) partition. This started yesterday after I had
booted to 98 to play an old game. When I restarted and
booted to Win2000, I found that my F: drive was
unreadable. It still appears in the "My Computer" folder,
but when its properties are displayed it has an unknown
file system and 0 bytes of free or used space.

I thought this was just a problem with the boot record so
I found an article on the microsoft support site (153973)
and used dskprobe.exe as described.

The problem was not solved. Next I downloaded some
shareware copies of recovery tools, "Active Partition
Recovery" and "Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS".

Both of these tools find the drive and list it as NTFS.
They also display the correct size of the drive and the
files in the drive.

My problem is that I don't have enough space in the other
drives to recover the 50+ Gigs of data from the F: drive.
I only have about 5 Gigs free.

Is there some way to get Windows 2000 to read the F: drive
again? Would it help if I installed PartitionMagic?



Thanks,
Yang

 

[Guest]

I have backed up the really important files, but I don't
have the means to back up 50+ Gigs. The other partitions
are all under 10 Gigs, and there is only about 5 Gigs of
free space between them all. I don't have a DVD burner,
and even with my CD burner it would take something like 73
CDs. I have backed up my C drive (operating system) with
norton ghost so that is already covered.



-Yang