Upgraded to win2k - and lost a partition?

[musixian]

I have been running win98 with two partitions on one hard drive - c: being the os, of course, and d: being the programs and data etc.

I installed a new hard drive and installed win2k on it, and it runs great. However, the disk management system does not see the extended partition (old d of my other hard drive, just the old c: partition. How do you get Win2k to find and identify the second (old d partition?

BTW, the new HDD with Win2k is Fat32, as are the older drives (old c: & d

 

[musixian]

<bump> need help!! </bump>

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: musixian
I have been running win98 with two partitions on one hard drive - c: being the os, of course, and d: being the programs and data etc.

I installed a new hard drive and installed win2k on it, and it runs great. However, the disk management system does not see the extended partition (old d of my other hard drive, just the old c: partition. How do you get Win2k to find and identify the second (old d partition?

BTW, the new HDD with Win2k is Fat32, as are the older drives (old c: & d

Actually you _could_ have installed Win98 on your D: partition if you had wanted to, but that's another story at this point. Seems strange to me. If you make a Win98 boot floppy and boot to it does it see all partitions? How sure are you that Win2k doesn't see that Apps/Data partition? Sometimes you don't see everything in Windows Explorer. Try going into Windows 2000's Disk Management (Settings/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management) and see if you can see it from there.

As a "last resort" you could try something unorthodox but that's apt to "work". If you have enough disk space (you probably do since you just installed a new HD), you could copy the info on your extended partition of your boot drive to the new HD (or use Ghost or Drive Image if you have one of those cool apps) and reformat or even recreate that "lost partition" with Windows 2000. It's sure to see it then. Just be sure to use FAT32 so each OS can see it. Then, of course, you move that data back from where you had it temporarily residing.

 

[musixian]

I should mention that, per recommendations (from Microsoft - ugh - and other sites), I upgraded the basic disk to dynamic disk. From what I've read, however, at that point I should be able to see the old data(?). Does anyone know if I should "create a new volume," either normal or spanned, to see the data (I haven't done that yet because that definitely sounds irreperable!)?

 

[musixian]

sorry, bump again (I KNOW someone has upgraded a fat32 drive with data to "dynamic" and lived to tell about it!)

 

[musixian]

Apparently I was wrong about there being someone else out there that has seen this situation. But, alas, all is good!! I recommend wholeheartedly, with all of my A+ cert, computer-geeky being the program GetDataBack!!!

This is wickedly SIMPLE to use and it absolutely scoured my hard drive that was showing simply nothing through any other method I could come across. At $59 registration, it's an absolute steal for recovery and, more importantly, peace-of-mind! Before I knew it, every bit of data, email, and address I had nearly given up on were on my new hard drive!

It's so simple and effective, in fact, that I'm highly considering listing myself locally as a "data-recovery-expert" (or whatever the proper classification is) in the Yellow Pages. With the coin those companies pull in because of some company's desperation after a crash, I'm thinking this area could use it!

Anyhoo, although I have no direct solution for this problem, I think EVERYone would benefit from my suffering and, then, success.

 

[randypj]

musixian--Thanks for the mention of the program. You never know when someone might need it. I had a friend use Lost and Found, which used to be by Powerquest, but I don't think they market it anymore.

Good idea about advertising data recovery.

Hmmm....if I was a college student, I would think I could market some skills like that via the college newspaper? Or maybe there are so many geeks at college that the market is saturated? I wonder. Hmm....think I'll ask in a thread. I've always wondered.
--Randy

 

[Muse]

Uh, good luck in your new career of data recovery. Myself, I did some investigation of Dynamic Disk when I first started getting into Win2000 but saw something that scared me away. I don't recommend using it. Me thinks if you hadn't, you wouldn't have had this problem. Why did you do that?

 

[musixian]

Originally posted by: Muse I did some investigation of Dynamic Disk when I first started getting into Win2000 but saw something that scared me away. I don't recommend using it. Me thinks if you hadn't, you wouldn't have had this problem. Why did you do that?

What makes you think I don't ask MYSELF that question every friggin minute?!?!?

Actually, the extended partition was not visible before I had "upgraded" to dynamic, no matter what method I tried. So, as I mentioned, I decided to be no smarter than your average lemming and follow Microsoft's wise advice (tic, firmly!).