|
|
|
Partitions visible in XP but not 2000
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 9:31 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by EStew
(1 messages posted)
Hi,
I have 2 WD 250 GB drives, with 6 NTFS partitions ranging from about 15 to 90 GB
each, which were in RAID 1 under Win 2000. The disks developed some typical file
system problems but for some reason chkdsk /f would not fix them. I suspected it
was related to the RAID setup, but I did not want to spend the time trying to troubleshoot
that problem, so I decided to put the drives in an XP machine and try fixing there.
That worked just fine, both disks reported no errors after that. Still suspicious
of the RAID setup, I decided to try putting the drives back in the Win 2000 machine
and just use software to back up one to the other. However, when I put the drives
back and started up Win 2000, only 2 of the 6 partitions showed up. Partition Magic
8 reported the rest of the space as unallocated and could not find any deleted partitions
to recover (both disks were behaving the same way, that is they both showed the same
2 partitions, both showed the rest of the space as unallocated). Afraid I had just
lost a whole bunch of data, I put one of the disks back in the XP machine, but there,
all six partitions showed up just fine.
So my problem is, why won't those 4 partitions show up under Win 2000, and is there
any way to fix it short of repartitioning one drive and copying data from the XP
machine back to the Win 2000 machine (a very slow process), then repartitioning the
other drive and backing up the first to the second?
Thanks for any help.
|
There are presently no replies to this message.
|
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 | Partitions visible in XP but not 2000 (EStew: Wed, Aug 15, 2007, 9:31 am) |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum
|
|
|
|
