IDE controller issues..

[divxdude]

I been having tons of troubles lately.. upgraded motherboard and installed a Promise
ATA133 and suffered from alot of lost files/folders damaged files / folders / partitions.
in Win2k pro.

this is not a bad drive problem.. the drives are definatly good.

at first i thought the uopgraded to Via kt600 was conflicting with the Promise card.
after 3 weeks of no resolution and restoring from backup 10-12 times i decided to abort and go back to my old Abit kr7-133raid with via 266 chipset.

upon doing so now am unable to access my 3rd drive ...it was connected to the
Promise card but originally formatted on the old Abit.

windows cant see any files on the drive now , i was able to recover some stuff
using RSTUDIO recovery software.

i'm just wondering if i can gget it back onto the Promise card can i reover the rest..
anyone had problems like this before?

 

[divxdude]

someone suggested this LBA issue patch but i always had SP3 installed from win2k sp3 integrated CD.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/

"the ATAPI subsystem may report hard-disk space greater than that which is addressable without the 48-bit LBA support (larger than approximately 137 GB) during the text-mode portion of Setup. In this case, the hard disk's partition table information has already been created. "