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working HDDs now missing or unreadable?

Kadarin

Kadarin

Lifer
I have two HDDs that were working perfectly well, and on transferring from one PC into another (each drive went into a different new PC), one shows up in the Windows 2000 MMC as "dynamic" and "unreadable", where in the other PC, the other drive shows up as "Missing" (the MMC knows it's there, and recognizes the size, but can't read data).

The original PC was running Win2k, as are the two new PCs, and the filesystems are both NTFS, unencrypted.

According to the MMC, the one that lists as "unreadable" can be "reverted to basic disk", but that will lose the data on the drive. This is a last resort.

On the other PC, according to the MMC, the "missing" drive can be "reactivated", but if I try I get an error stating the drive cannot be located.

In both cases, the BIOS correctly recognizes the drives, and the jumper settings are correct (I will doublecheck this). On the "missing" drive, this is not a cable issue.

Any thoughts?
 
That sounds to me like the drives were spanned in the old computer (one drive letter combining space located on both drives). If that is the case, the only ways to use them properly are to either put them back in their original locations in the original machine and back up the data, then format the drives and install them in the new computers, or else just format the drives (losing the data on them) and install them in the new computers.
 
Originally posted by: Fardringle
That sounds to me like the drives were spanned in the old computer (one drive letter combining space located on both drives). If that is the case, the only ways to use them properly are to either put them back in their original locations in the original machine and back up the data, then format the drives and install them in the new computers, or else just format the drives (losing the data on them) and install them in the new computers.
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Sadly, the old computer is no longer functional (which brought on this dilemma). Also, the drives weren't spanned... they were just "Simple Volumes" under Win2K, one drive letter per physical HDD.

It looks like I can format one of them, but the other one that's "missing" will take some work.

Thanks for your reply!
 
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