Win2k doesn't pick up my old Hardrive.

[Dagon]

I just upgraded my system to win2k and also reformated my drives. I have a 4gig backup drive that's got all my valuable files.
My raid array is NTFS and the backup is FAT32. For some reason though, I can't get WIN2k to "see" my old hardrive. The BIOS picks it up though. I'm worried that I accidently formatted my backup too, so is there any free DOS based file recovery programs that I could try? I'll try tonight to boot up with a Win98 boot disk to see if I can at least copy the files over. Will copy fat 32 files on to a NFTS partition even work? Any suggestions?
:confused:

[turd]

have u tried slaveing that thing to your cdr, cause your problem is getting it IDed, it shouldnt matter if it contains data or not, once that happens-the pickup, u should be able to dig in, drag whatever u want over

[joey_rjm5]

Originally posted by Dagon
I just upgraded my system to win2k and also reformated my drives. I have a 4gig backup drive that's got all my valuable files.
My raid array is NTFS and the backup is FAT32. For some reason though, I can't get WIN2k to "see" my old hardrive. The BIOS picks it up though. I'm worried that I accidently formatted my backup too, so is there any free DOS based file recovery programs that I could try? I'll try tonight to boot up with a Win98 boot disk to see if I can at least copy the files over. Will copy fat 32 files on to a NFTS partition even work? Any suggestions?
:confused:

from what I understand, you can't see a fat32 drive if you are using ntfs. However, you can convert your hard drive from ntfs to fat32 and then you should be able to see the drive. you can't mix a fat32 file system with a ntfs file system

hope this helps

[turd]

I think maybe nt 4.0, but 2k yes, should be able to

FAT32
FAT32 is an enhanced version of the FAT file system that can be used on drives from 512 megabytes (MB) to 2 TB in size. The partition size limit is approximately 128GB. FAT and FAT32 offer compatibility with operating systems other than Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

FAT32 can be accessed by Win95B (OSR2, OSR2.1), Win95C (OSR2.5), Win98, Win98SE, WinME, Win2K and WinXP.
It cannot be accessed by DOS (prior to version 7.0), Windows 3.x and Windows NT 4.0 (without the use of third party utilities).

The majority of systems are formatted with FAT32 as the default.

NTFS
NTFS (New Technologies File System) has all of the basic capabilities of FAT, and it provides the following advantages over the FAT and FAT 32 file systems:

File security. Access rights can be assigned to files and directories, allowing users full access, partial access or no access at all to data on your hard disk.

Disk compression. File and directory compression can be performed directly without the need for third party utilities, saving space, while allowing for transparent access and operation to the user.

Support for large hard disks, with a theoretical limit of 16 ExaBytes, and up to 2 TeraBytes (TB).

NTFS supports Unicode, and natively supports long file names.

Disk quotas can be assigned, limiting the amount of disk space users can access on a partition.

Encryption. The NTFS 5.0 file system can automatically encrypt and decrypt file data as it is read and written to the disk.

NTFS can be accessed by Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Note that there are some differences between the NTFS used by Win2K/XP and WinNT; you need to apply Service Pack 4 to Windows NT in order to access NTFS5.

[ve6jhc]

I am running a pair of 40 GB drives on a Raid controller and they are formatted as NTFS. I also have a 30 GB drive formatted as Fat32 and I can drag and drop files between the drives without any problem and read both drives. I am running Win2K. Did you connect your old drive to the non raid controller? I don't think that you can connect a non raided drive to the raid controller when you are using that controller to raid two other drives. I have a program that reads/recovers data from a formatted drive...It is called Tsunami. There is another program called Lost and Found that does the same thing. It is made by the Partition Magic people.

[Oni]

I'd say that its too old. Windows2000 dosn't like things that are old.

[Dagon]

Thanks for all the responses guys, I ended up getting it to work by reinstalling w2k. It picked the old hardrive up during setup.