Win2k does not recognize D drive

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Kelly Mollins

I recently installed Windows 2000. I previously had 98. Our
D drive stored all our our music files. Win2k does not seem
to recognize the drive. From the win 98 boot disk I checked
the directory. The files are there. How do I get Win2k to
recognize the drive? Any help would be mucho appreciated.

Kelly
 
If you go to computer management and use drive management do you see the drive and its stus?
 
Kelly said:
I recently installed Windows 2000. I previously had 98. Our
D drive stored all our our music files. Win2k does not seem
to recognize the drive. From the win 98 boot disk I checked
the directory. The files are there. How do I get Win2k to
recognize the drive? Any help would be mucho appreciated.

Kelly
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Mind explaining a few things? What is Drive D? That is, is
it a separate hard drive or a logical partition in a single
hard drive? If it is a single hard drive was it the one used
to boot Windows 98? If Windows 2000 was installed into its
own, single hard drive as Master, was the Win98 drive made
the Slave? And if it the Win98 HD was the previous boot
drive, was its boot sector inactivated?
 
D drive is a separate hard drive. It wasn't the one used to
boot 98. That was done with my main drive, C. As for your
other questions, I am not sure. I checked the directory
under the telephone direction of someone more knowledgeable
than I am. He is currently unavailabe. I can tell you that
I have not set up 2000 so that I can also run 98. When I
did install 2000 I chose the NTFS file system. I am
assuming the D drive was FAT32. Is there anyway I convert
the drive in DOS from FAT32 to NTFS? When I look at D drive
in my computer, it says that it an unknown type and is empty.
Does this help? Thanks for your attention to this matter.
 
Kelly said:
D drive is a separate hard drive. It wasn't the one used to
boot 98. That was done with my main drive, C. As for your
other questions, I am not sure. I checked the directory
under the telephone direction of someone more knowledgeable
than I am. He is currently unavailabe. I can tell you that
I have not set up 2000 so that I can also run 98. When I
did install 2000 I chose the NTFS file system. I am
assuming the D drive was FAT32. Is there anyway I convert
the drive in DOS from FAT32 to NTFS? When I look at D drive
in my computer, it says that it an unknown type and is empty.
Does this help? Thanks for your attention to this matter.
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The first thing to do is to back up the music files before
they are lost. Not necessary if there is already a backup
for them. Next, open Disk Management and see whether or not
Drive D has been identified. Even if it is FAT32, it should
be seen by Windows 2000 as a HD with an extended partition.
This might all that needs to be done unless there is another
device, such as a cdrom drive, currently being seen by Windows
2000 as Drive D. In this case, either accept the drive letter
that is newly assigned to the old HD or re-assign new drive
letters to the other devices. If the old HD is not seen in
Disk Management, exit the applet, shut down the computer and
re-boot to get into bios setup. Configure the bios to auto-
detect this second HD. If negative results, post back here.
 
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