re: disappeared drive..
Friday, August 17, 2001 at 12:35 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by chau
(2 messages posted)
thank you so much ^___^ i have yet to try it out, cuz my cousin is gonna be outta
town a few days and i need his help or else i'm gonna screw up the computer (seriously)
thanks again, i'll letcha know if it works. =)
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001 at 11:21 am, Coby Wan Kenobi wrote:
>Sounds like you might have been using the NTFS system, when you were running Windows
>2000. Windows Me only recognizes (to my knowledge) FAT16 or FAT32 partitions.
>
>In lay-men's terms: If, in fact, your D drive still exists, it is formatted in
a
>way that Windows Me doesn't, and cannot recognize. There fore, you will be unable
>to see it while you are running Windows Me.
>
>My solution for you would be to re-install Windows 2000 (making sure not to overwrite
>the old D drive) and see if you can back up your D drive before you go back to Windows
>Me. A potential alternative solution (meaning that I'm not so sure if this would
>work, but it can't hurt to try) would be to boot the computer from a Windows 2000
>Boot Disk, copy the files from D to C, reboot the computer normally, re-format D,
>then copy the files back to D.
>
>Hope this works. Let me know if it does. Otherwise, I don't know what to tell
you
>except to ask one of the other guys out here.
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