Win2000 doesn't recognize a harddrive
From: Alex (asmirnov_at_ic.sunysb.edu)
Date: 06/07/04
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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:08:42 -0700
Hi all,
I though I was an experienced Windoze user, but I guess I
still have a bit to learn. This is what happened - I
upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 Pro and the installation
went through flawlessly. My configuration was (is) as
follows HD1 (Quantum Fireball - Primary Master), HD2
(Seagate Barracuda - Primary Slave), CD1 (DVD - Secondary
Master) and CD2 (CDRW - Secondary Slave). HD1 has three
partitions (Win 2000 - FAT32 (drive C:), Linux - SWAP and
Linux - ext3) and HD2 has two FAT32 partitions (drives D:
and E:). This configuration worked perfectly fine with
Win98SE. After the update to Win2000 Pro however, I can
only see HD1 with the C: partition (naturally the Linux
partitions are invisible). Windows DOES NOT recognize
second harddrive (HD2) and the D: and E: partitions are
inaccessible. BIOS recognizes both harddrives and so does
Linux (I can even access them and use them from Linux). I
guess Windows sees them (or at least knows about them) as
well because I can access C: and both DVD (F:) and CDRW
(G:) - this means that there are two letters missing (D:
and E:) - corresponding to my two missing partitions. Also
in "Administrative Tools" in the "Device Manager" I can
see two harddrives present: Quantum FireballLP LM30 and
ST380021A. However - in "System information" -
> "Components" -> "Storage" -> "Drives" I only see
the "C:" drive. Also in "System Tools" -> "Storage" -
> "Disk Management" and "Logical Drives" there is only C: -
ergo the second hard drive missing. I downloaded the
Seagate Disc setup utility but it forces me to reformat
and/or repartition the drive which is unacceptable because
there is data I don't want to lose. I suspect this is a
Windows - rather than a hardware - problem. Does anyone
have any advice for me?
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