Re: The second 200GB drive is no longer seen by win2000

From: Gert B. Frob (sbrentcarter_at_spaminator.net)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:15:26 GMT

Have you re-enabled Large Block Addressing?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098&Product=win2000

Unless you are using SCSI drives, DO NOT do anything more until you apply
the registry key in the referenced article and reboot. You WILL trash your
data.

"nesredep egrob" <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> wrote in message
news:h2etj0tg6cumqjj3q0r31us6fdrchhrckp@4ax.com...
> It all started with me being an idiot. I had a look at eMule which is a
p2p
> program for sharing. As my firewall was obstructing the access, I brought
it
> down and trusted that my router would look out for me.
>
> When finished, I needed to make a new folder in explorer and found to my
horror
> that instead of obeying that, it tried to install drive image 7.0 or
something
> similar. I tried nearly everything to bring my computer to its senses
> - all to no avail. Well I had C: backed up so no worries - I formatted C:
drive
> and installed 2000 pro, no trouble. Then came the restore which was on
Drive F:
> this is where the trouble started: F: had become a CD reader/writer
instead of
> the first half of the second drive which is also a 200GB drive. So I had a
look
> at the Admin Tools where I picked out the Disk Manager or whatever it is
called.
> The disk did show up with a nasty red spot adorned with a white cross and
it
> said that the disk was dynamic and unreadable.
> Used Westen Digital, the manufacturers floppie and rebooted to that. It
informed
> me that both drive 0 and drive 1 were OK - in other words it should have
worked.
>
> Now my backups are on F and G drives and so are lot of video and photos -
I
> would be very pleased to recover the data - but how PLEASE.
>
>
> For your information, my stats are:
> Win 2000, Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
> 1 Gb memory,ADSL
> 200+200 GB disks partitioned C:D:E;as 7.81, 80.84. 97.65
> F: G: as 88.65, 97.66 for data
> Borge Pedersen :-)
> Perth, Australia
> mailto:b_o_r_g_e@SPAMiinet.net.au
> remove SPAM and underlines for email
> http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~borge

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