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Saving my partition in Win2k

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lowcrawlerW

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Alrighty... this may be in the wrong forum, but I'll never know if I don't write it...

I have a 60gb Hard drive. I installed Win2k onto a 8gb (setup-created) partion NTFS formated. Once in windows I 'upgraded' the drive to a dynamic disk and created a ?Simple? volume that was roughly 51 or so gb in size. I then have proceeded to fill this drive up about 75% with various files and other items that I would not want to have to go replace. (MP3's, movies, games...etc)

Then my Motherboard Crapped out on my (due to me going a little to high on the FSB), and also took the CPU (1.4 T-bird) with it. It was a KG7-Raid board. I'm buying a KR7A-Raid to replace the board, and a XP 1600+ to replace the CPU.

How can I make sure I don't lose my data on the other partition? Will I be able to just plop in the new MB and CPU and run with it... or will I need a re-install of WIN2k? And if I do need a new install, how do I keep my old secondary partion.

Last time I re-installed Win2k - same setup (8gb system partition, 50gb storage partition) - I re-formatted the old 8gb partition in setup and when I got into windows and went to Disk Management, it just say my old 50gb partition as 'unused' (and I lost everything on it!)... I was thinking that if I didn't touch it, it would have still been there... but it wasn't. I don't want this to happen again. Should I do a 'repair' install? Or install into the same partition w/o reformating?

ideas... suggestion?

JOE

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Is this in the wrong forum....? Can someone fill me in on which would be the right one?

JOE

All I really need to know is if this can be done... if not, tell me so I stop wasting time...
 
if' you're only changing the mobo and chip, I don't think you'll have any problems or have to re-install. win 2k should just set up or ask you to install the new drivers for the board.
 


<< Last time I re-installed Win2k - same setup (8gb system partition, 50gb storage partition) - I re-formatted the old 8gb partition in setup and when I got into windows and went to Disk Management, it just say my old 50gb partition as 'unused' (and I lost everything on it!)... I was thinking that if I didn't touch it, it would have still been there >>



why are you running dynamic disk? just asking. why not just make it a regular partition? i think you lost your info because i believe win 2k controls the dynamic partition and when you re-installed 2K it just took it as a new partition because you formatted the 2K partition and all the info about the dynamic partition was stored on the 2K partition (8gb).
 


<< if' you're only changing the mobo and chip, I don't think you'll have any problems or have to re-install. win 2k should just set up or ask you to install the new drivers for the board. >>



coo coo ... thanks.

JOE
 
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