re: disappeared drive..
Friday, August 17, 2001 at 3:19 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mark Cole
(2 messages posted)
At http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml you can download NTFS
ver.4 drivers for 98/ME they are read-only in the freeware version but should work(depending
on the security settings) for pulling the files off the drive for backup.
If you had set compression (you're probably)or heaven forbid encryption (definitely
if you don't have the private key still)you're screwed and you'll have to reinstall
2000, but there is nothing preventing you from having a dual boot setup. Just make
sure you don't convert the C drive to NTFS.
The full read/write drivers are available for 98/ME at Http://www.winternals.com
for $50 but it isn't clear if you can write NTFS ver.5 I think you can though.
Hope this can help.
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.... copy the files from D to C, reboot the computer normally, re-format D,
>then copy the files back to D.
>
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