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Hi, Nathan. Thanks for writing back. All my partitions are FAT32. I
did have my drive C set as NTFS, but eventually reformatted to FAT32
and reinstalled WinXP on that.
I like the suggestion of plugging the drive into another machine and
trying it there. But now, as I think of it, this is the only machine
I have with a SATA connection. But I will experiment with plugging it
into the other SATA connection on this motherboard and see if, by some
random chance, that makes a difference.
Nathan McNulty <525676@betaweb.com> wrote in message news:<err0O2eaEHA.1764@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> Well, first, a Windows 98 Boot disk is not going to recognize the drive
> as it would be NTFS and Windows 98 can't read NTFS. Second, I think you
> meant Windows Explorer and Partition Magic fail to recongize the
> partitions and the names? Third, you would have to change it to dynamic
> on purpose, there is no way that I can think of to do this accidently.
> Finally, it is possible that part of the drive has become corrupted,
> lost its MFT, etc, and similar to old floppies, lost its data. I hope
> this is not the case and I would try plugging the drive into another
> computer and see if it works there.
>
> Nathan McNulty
>
> Ray Woodcock wrote:
>
> > I had partitioned the drive, formatted and named the partitions, and
> > placed data in the partitions. Windows Explorer and Partition Magic
> > recognized the partitions and the names. I have been working with
> > this drive for a month or two.
> >
> > The Win98 boot floppy also fails to recognize it.
> >
> > I haven't intentionally set the drive as a dynamic disk. Is that
> > something I might have done accidentally? What does it mean, and how
> > can I find out?
> >
> > To all appearances, right now it's an unformatted 80GB drive, just
> > waiting to be partitioned and to have more data put onto it. And then
> > this can happen again? It's a little scary.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nathan McNulty <525676@betaweb.com> wrote in message news:<eKHi7HSaEHA.2812@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> >
> >>It should be called a local disk. That is the default name for it. Are
> >>you able to access it from withing Windows Explorer? It is possible
> >>that Partition Magic is reading it improperly. Maybe you have the disk
> >>set as a dynamic disk which Partition Magic does not understand?
> >>
> >>Nathan McNulty
> >>
> >>the dude wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>did everyone else you live with go out of town with you?
> >>>if not i'd ask around to see who used your p.c. last and warn them away from ever doing so again with a gentle death threat or possible suicide note in their handwriting etc....
> >>>
> >>>anyway it seems that while you were away the mice did play
> >>>if the mice removed you drive in windows disk management and it's a raid drive you may have big trouble. if you were attempting to use partitionmagic on it before you left to repartition or recently installed partition magic and set an option to do something on next boot ....... well what the heck did you do?
> >>>
> >>>also is your data still on the drive as far as explorer is concerned?
> >>>if so just uninstall partitionmaGIC or ignore what it says.
> >>>
> >>>your drive should be labeled hard disk or local volume or similar in explorer unless you re-name it using explorer or the disk management utility
> >>>
> >>>"Ray Woodcock" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I have an SATA drive. Until yesterday, Windows XP recognized it as
> >>>>just another drive in Windows Explorer. Now Explorer calls it "Local
> >>>>Disk" and PartitionMagic reports it as "Unformatted."
> >>>>
> >>>>I haven't changed anything in the configuration -- I was actually out
> >>>>of town, and it did this when I returned, as soon as I turned the
> >>>>machine on. The RAID array setup reports it as "Functional."
> >>>>
> >>>>What's happening?
> >>>>
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