I'm desperate for help, so please try to help me...
I'll give you the whole story.
I have a K6-2 350MHz system with two IBM harddrives, one 8GB (primary slave, D
and one 30GB (primary master, C.
I decided it was time to upgrade the system and bought a T-bird 1.33GHz, Abit KG7-LITE, 256MB DDR DIMM and a Chieftec Dragon MidiTower.
Since this upgrade probably would require a reinstallation of Windows 2000 I decided to format the whole drive to get a really clean installation.
Therefore I copied everything on my 30GB-drive that I really needed (mp3, divX, games, appz, documents, drivers, etc.) to the small 8GB drive just for temporary storage while I sweeped the "main-drive" clean. I managed to fill the entire disk - 8GB of data that has taken years to gather.
I had FAT32 on both disks and both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 installed on the C drive.
After installing all the new hardware I booted up (and adjusted the necessary BIOS settings) and chose Windows 98 in the boot menu, I hit F8 and started only DOS. I switched to D: and typed "format C:" and the whole process went quite painless. At this time both drives were functioning perfectly, the backed-up files were all on the D-drive and all was normal.
After formatting the C drive I rebooted the system with the Win2000 CD in the CD player, and the Win2000 installation started.
Already at this point did I notice something strange - in the beginning of the installation, when you are asked on what drive you want to install the OS, both harddrives were listed, BUT the "backup-drive" was listed as errornous. I don't remember _exactly_ what it said 'cuz I didn't think it would be a huge problem, so I went on with the installation and all went just fine.
When I was done I opened Windows Explorer to re-locate all the files from the 8GB backup drive, and to install all software I had there, etc. It was no good... *sigh*
The D-drive was listed as "Local Disk (D" and when I tried to open it a message told me that the harddrive was not formatted, and asked me if I wanted to format it. Naturally I chose NO, 'cuz I KNOW it is formatted. Geez, it's FULL of stuff that I can't possible afford to lose...
What am I to do?!?! What went wrong, and more importantly, how can I save my data???
I'll give you the whole story.
I have a K6-2 350MHz system with two IBM harddrives, one 8GB (primary slave, D
and one 30GB (primary master, C.I decided it was time to upgrade the system and bought a T-bird 1.33GHz, Abit KG7-LITE, 256MB DDR DIMM and a Chieftec Dragon MidiTower.
Since this upgrade probably would require a reinstallation of Windows 2000 I decided to format the whole drive to get a really clean installation.
Therefore I copied everything on my 30GB-drive that I really needed (mp3, divX, games, appz, documents, drivers, etc.) to the small 8GB drive just for temporary storage while I sweeped the "main-drive" clean. I managed to fill the entire disk - 8GB of data that has taken years to gather.
I had FAT32 on both disks and both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 installed on the C drive.
After installing all the new hardware I booted up (and adjusted the necessary BIOS settings) and chose Windows 98 in the boot menu, I hit F8 and started only DOS. I switched to D: and typed "format C:" and the whole process went quite painless. At this time both drives were functioning perfectly, the backed-up files were all on the D-drive and all was normal.
After formatting the C drive I rebooted the system with the Win2000 CD in the CD player, and the Win2000 installation started.
Already at this point did I notice something strange - in the beginning of the installation, when you are asked on what drive you want to install the OS, both harddrives were listed, BUT the "backup-drive" was listed as errornous. I don't remember _exactly_ what it said 'cuz I didn't think it would be a huge problem, so I went on with the installation and all went just fine.
When I was done I opened Windows Explorer to re-locate all the files from the 8GB backup drive, and to install all software I had there, etc. It was no good... *sigh*
The D-drive was listed as "Local Disk (D
" and when I tried to open it a message told me that the harddrive was not formatted, and asked me if I wanted to format it. Naturally I chose NO, 'cuz I KNOW it is formatted. Geez, it's FULL of stuff that I can't possible afford to lose...What am I to do?!?! What went wrong, and more importantly, how can I save my data???
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