Missing slave hard drive partitions

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Kevin

Sorry this is so long, but here's my problem:

I had a machine with a 10GB HDD and Win98SE. The original
HDD was partitioned into (1)- 8GB and (1)- 2GB partitions.
Win98SE was on the 8GB partion which was C: and the 2GB
partition was E:.
I bought a new 80GB HDD installed it as a slave, keeping
the original HDD as the master, partitioned it to (2)-
40GB partitions and installed Win2K on the F: partition. I
used the dual boot mode only until I knew that Win2K was
stable and it wouldn't give me any problems. Well it's bee
about a year and a half and no problems. So I decided to
wipe out Win98SE from C: and repartition C: and E: into
(1)- 10GB partition, and then reinstall Win2K on that
partition and wipeout the Win2K on F:.

My problem arose when, after installing Win2K on C: and
booting that OS, I can't find the (2)- 40GB partitions
anywhere. If I boot into the original Win2K on F:,
everything is fine.

Why are the partitions not showing up in my newest install
of Win2K? and how do I fix this.

I need my machine working again for schoolwork!

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The drives do not even show up in Dik Management.
The only place they have shown up, was during Win2K
install on C: drive. They were referenced on a blue screen
asking to format and/or partition any of the following
drives. I chose C: to be formatted and the drive I wanted
to install the OS to. That was the last time they were
seen. Any help you can offer will be much appreciated.
Thanks
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What does Disk Management have to say about it?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Kevin said:
Sorry this is so long, but here's my problem:

I had a machine with a 10GB HDD and Win98SE. The original
HDD was partitioned into (1)- 8GB and (1)- 2GB partitions.
Win98SE was on the 8GB partion which was C: and the 2GB
partition was E:.
I bought a new 80GB HDD installed it as a slave, keeping
the original HDD as the master, partitioned it to (2)-
40GB partitions and installed Win2K on the F: partition. I
used the dual boot mode only until I knew that Win2K was
stable and it wouldn't give me any problems. Well it's bee
about a year and a half and no problems. So I decided to
wipe out Win98SE from C: and repartition C: and E: into
(1)- 10GB partition, and then reinstall Win2K on that
partition and wipeout the Win2K on F:.

My problem arose when, after installing Win2K on C: and
booting that OS, I can't find the (2)- 40GB partitions
anywhere. If I boot into the original Win2K on F:,
everything is fine.

Why are the partitions not showing up in my newest install
of Win2K? and how do I fix this.

I need my machine working again for schoolwork!

Please send replies to (e-mail address removed)
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If you don't care about the data on the drive, then you might try booting
the Windows 2000 CD-Rom and delete all partition info found on the drive.
Then start the operating system, and use Disk Management to partition and
format the drive.
 
I've thought about that, and I'm leaning that way. I just
have to copy the things I want to keep from those
partitions to CD-R and then reformat.

Thanx for your help Dave.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
If you don't care about the data on the drive, then you might try booting
the Windows 2000 CD-Rom and delete all partition info found on the drive.
Then start the operating system, and use Disk Management to partition and
format the drive.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

The drives do not even show up in Dik Management.
The only place they have shown up, was during Win2K
install on C: drive. They were referenced on a blue screen
asking to format and/or partition any of the following
drives. I chose C: to be formatted and the drive I wanted
to install the OS to. That was the last time they were
seen. Any help you can offer will be much appreciated.
Thanks
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I'm having nearly the same problem:
had a 40 gig drive as master, installed a 120 gig as slave
for data storage and ran great this way for a year.
Started having system crashes am told because I frequently
evaluate new software and then uninstall it. Began to get
pretty frequent so I backedup the master onto to slave and
happily reformatted the master. I cannot access anything
on the slave now, it has no assigned drive letter. The
device manager shows it is there and working properly and
has the same configuration as before (printed a system
resource report prior to reformat). I accessed admin
tools and disk manager shows it with all available space,
and unallocated. What help I've found advised to use
device manager to uninstall, then reboot, which resulted
in it being found as new hardware, set it up with drivers
again. Still cant access it. Western digital, the
manufacturer, has a support website that sent me to
Microsoft and they want BIG $ just to answer the phone.

Any Idea's?


-----Original Message-----
What does Disk Management have to say about it?

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Kevin said:
Sorry this is so long, but here's my problem:

I had a machine with a 10GB HDD and Win98SE. The original
HDD was partitioned into (1)- 8GB and (1)- 2GB partitions.
Win98SE was on the 8GB partion which was C: and the 2GB
partition was E:.
I bought a new 80GB HDD installed it as a slave, keeping
the original HDD as the master, partitioned it to (2)-
40GB partitions and installed Win2K on the F: partition. I
used the dual boot mode only until I knew that Win2K was
stable and it wouldn't give me any problems. Well it's bee
about a year and a half and no problems. So I decided to
wipe out Win98SE from C: and repartition C: and E: into
(1)- 10GB partition, and then reinstall Win2K on that
partition and wipeout the Win2K on F:.

My problem arose when, after installing Win2K on C: and
booting that OS, I can't find the (2)- 40GB partitions
anywhere. If I boot into the original Win2K on F:,
everything is fine.

Why are the partitions not showing up in my newest install
of Win2K? and how do I fix this.

I need my machine working again for schoolwork!

Please send replies to (e-mail address removed)
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