Re: Harddrive not recognized

From: Heiner (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/01/04


Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:05:02 -0800

Just tried the sharing: I get an error message: 'The
volume des not contain a recognized file system. Please
make sure that all required file system dirvers are loaded
and that the volume is not corrupted.' J just re-installed
the driver (windows found them on the web) but it didn't
help. How can I determine if it is corrupted and if it is,
how do I correct that (hopefully)?

Thx!

>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Heiner" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:1651701c416c9$d88c56d0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> I have a Maxtor 80GB harddisk as my second (D:) drive. I
>> just installed windows 2000 (formerly had Windows 98,
then
>> transferred personal data from C: to D:, deleted C: and
>> installed W2k on C:). The drive D: letter appears in the
>> explorer, when I right click onit I get all the options,
>> but when I left click on it it says: "The disk in drive
D:
>> is not formatted. Do you want to format?".
>>
>> There is a lot of important data on D: how can I safely
>> get it back?
>>
>> Thanks so much for a quick reply!
>
>- Was your drive D: a dynamic volume?
>- When you boot your disk with a win98 boot disk from
> www.bootdisk.com and run fdisk.exe, what type of
> partition do you see for your 80 GByte disk?
>- If you now run this command:
> ntfsdos.exe /L:EF
> are any NTFS drives loaded? If yes, do they show
> any data? ntfsdos.exe is freely available at
> www.sysinternals.com.
>
>
>.
>



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