Second harddrive not recognized

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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!
 
well, you can first go into your bios and see if the computer really seeing
the drive... set the drive to slave... and the other to primary... if
that does not work open the box the make sure the jumpers on the second
drive are set to slave and not master...
 
The drive is recognized. I can even see it in the
Explorer. Also, it is properly configured, worked under
W98 without issues. Any other ideas?
 
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?
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Depends what you did to the D: drive. Are you sure the second drive is
not C:? Try running Disk Management to verify.
 
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