help needed---disc unreadable after moving controler

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mad pierre

Hi, can someone stop me tearing my hair out?
I moved a perfectly functioning HDD fom the primary ide on
my MSi K7N2G-ILSR to the fast trac controller (pomise 376)
and now the drive is unreadable. Moving it back results in
win2k starting but 1/2 way through i get "boot disk
inaccesable". The disk had 2 partitions,20GB boot and
100GB data. ghosting back an old image almost worked but
the system seems stuck in a loop (repeatedly asking me to
log in). Putting the image on a spare drive and booting
from that, disk manager says the disk is unreadble.
Partition magic shows the data partition as type 42(hex).

can anyone suggest how to recover this data partion?
regards

mad Pierre
 
Thanks but this did not resovle the problem

I have since downloaded the trial version of irecover
which has identified all the files on the drive ---so i
will just have to save up for the NTFS version to cure the
problem.

Thanks for the assistance though

Regards
Mad Pierre
 
Hi, Pierre.

When Win2K Setup runs, one of the first things it does is detect your
hardware configuration, including the HD controller. Setup then customizes
YOUR copy of Win2K to fit that environment, including the proper drivers for
THAT controller. If you change to a different controller, Win2K cannot
boot - the typical symptom is just what you saw: BSOD with Stop 0x7B,
Inaccessible_Boot_Device.

The fix is to run Win2K Setup again by booting from the Win2K CD-ROM with
your new hardware configuration. First, though, be sure you have at hand
the Promise controller driver on a floppy diskette. Early in the Setup
process, a message will flash briefly onscreen telling you to Press F6 to
install SCSI or other mass storage drivers. Press F6 (quickly) and wait
while Setup continues to copy a lot of files. Finally, the process will
stop with instructions for using that floppy to install the drivers. After
this, Setup will continue to install your newly-recustomized Win2K to fit
your new hardware. This is not a quickie job; it will take as long as a
fresh install, but you can preserve your installed applications and data by
following Microsoft's instructions for an in-place upgrade:
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q292175

If you find a shortcut, please post it. We've been looking for one for 4
years, since Win2K was new. :>(

If you still need a disk recovery program, you might want to check out
R-Studio (www.r-tt.com), which has recovered files from a couple of "lost"
NTFS drives for me.

RC
 
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