Tony Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Hi allOk here is a little problem.A friends hard drive was full, so we went out and bought a new Seagate 80 Gb drive.I installed the drive last Friday, and formatted it via the drive manager in W2K.Now i did not think much of it at the time but it would only allow me to format it as a "Simple" drive (by the way it is set up on IDE 0 as a slave). After the format (which took for ever approx 4 hours) i put this down to the PC only being a AMD K2 450 Mhz, thus Slow. We transferred all her important data from the old full drive to the new one, which was fine.Since then her old drive seems to have packed up, it is not being seen by the bios or anything.So i have got her PC here at my place now, with the intention of copying all her data off of the new drive over to my system, and then format and install W2K onto her new drive, and then copying all the data back.So i put her new dive into my drive caddy, and booted up my system. Explorer does not see her drive. i then went to my drive manager, there it can see the drive, but lists it as "Foreign" right clicking the drive gives me the option of converting the drive to a "Basic" drive, BUT in doing so it say that all data on the drive will be lost.How can i access this drive so as i can copy all the data from it?I have Arconis True Image 9 if it is of any help.Thanks for your timeTony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Windows 2000 has two disk types.Basic:The standard disk type, supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS etc..Dynamic:Used as part of a RAID, for fault tolerance.You can only upgrade from Basic to Dynamic. This is a one-way street. If you upgrade to Dynamic it is done, until the disk is re-partitioned.Why you are being asked to "upgrade" to a basic disk is a mystery to me. Perhaps your disk is faulty? You should unplug all disks from her original system, other than the bad disk, and see if it works. If all is well, re-connect the new disk, making sure to check all master/slave connections first. Set the both as master on seperate IDE channels, and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 HiI have managed to get her PC working so it looks like a intermittent problem with her old Hdd.So it is now connected to my network, sending all it data to my PC.Once that is done i will rip the old disk out and re-format the new one and install W2K back onto it.ThanksTony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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