please help, disk 2 is unreadable in windows 2000

[thadon]

hey i just switched from windows xp to windows 2000 with sp3 , and now my 200gb hard drive is unreadable under windows2000. i also switched the disk from primary to secondary ide before the windows 2000 installation, because i realized i had it on the wrong channel. please help, i really do not want to lose any data from this hard drive. thanks.

by the way, the disk is dynamic disk if that makes any difference.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Switch back to XP
Restore from backups
Is it recognized by the BIOS?

Don't crosspost, it's rude.

 

[spyordie007]

go into disk management and right-click and initialize the drive.

if it doesnt show up under disk management you may have to update to sp4 (I cant remember offhand the 2k driver support).

from what I've heard I doubt you've lost your data

-Erik

 

[thadon]

yeah back in xp now... but its just an unformatted drive now. sorry for cross posting i'm very scared of losing all this data. i'm really lost now... hoping i do not lose this hard drive.

 

[Kelemvor]

Is it NTFS or FAT32 or what? Could try just booting off a boot disk and seeing if you can read the data that way...

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
go into disk management and right-click and initialize the drive.

if it doesnt show up under disk management you may have to update to sp4 (I cant remember offhand the 2k driver support).

from what I've heard I doubt you've lost your data

What spyordie007 said. Should have no problems after doing that.

 

[Sianath]

May or may not have problems. If it's dynamic, seeing the disk in disk management is only half the battle if he's moved it between systems.