Y
Yang
I am running dual boot windows 98/ windows 2000
Professional.
I have two hard drives. The first has three partitions: C:
(FAT32), DFAT32), FNTFS) The second drive has one
partition: EFAT32)
Windows 98 is on D:
Windows 2000 is on C:
My problem is that Windows 2000 will no longer recognize
my FNTFS) partition. This started yesterday after I had
booted to 98 to play an old game. When I restarted and
booted to Win2000, I found that my F: drive was
unreadable. It still appears in the "My Computer" folder,
but when its properties are displayed it has an unknown
file system and 0 bytes of free or used space.
I thought this was just a problem with the boot record so
I found an article on the microsoft support site (153973)
and used dskprobe.exe as described.
The problem was not solved. Next I downloaded some
shareware copies of recovery tools, "Active Partition
Recovery" and "Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS".
Both of these tools find the drive and list it as NTFS.
They also display the correct size of the drive and the
files in the drive.
My problem is that I don't have enough space in the other
drives to recover the 50+ Gigs of data from the F: drive.
I only have about 5 Gigs free.
Is there some way to get Windows 2000 to read the F: drive
again? Would it help if I installed PartitionMagic?
Thanks,
Yang
Professional.
I have two hard drives. The first has three partitions: C:
(FAT32), DFAT32), FNTFS) The second drive has one
partition: EFAT32)
Windows 98 is on D:
Windows 2000 is on C:
My problem is that Windows 2000 will no longer recognize
my FNTFS) partition. This started yesterday after I had
booted to 98 to play an old game. When I restarted and
booted to Win2000, I found that my F: drive was
unreadable. It still appears in the "My Computer" folder,
but when its properties are displayed it has an unknown
file system and 0 bytes of free or used space.
I thought this was just a problem with the boot record so
I found an article on the microsoft support site (153973)
and used dskprobe.exe as described.
The problem was not solved. Next I downloaded some
shareware copies of recovery tools, "Active Partition
Recovery" and "Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS".
Both of these tools find the drive and list it as NTFS.
They also display the correct size of the drive and the
files in the drive.
My problem is that I don't have enough space in the other
drives to recover the 50+ Gigs of data from the F: drive.
I only have about 5 Gigs free.
Is there some way to get Windows 2000 to read the F: drive
again? Would it help if I installed PartitionMagic?
Thanks,
Yang