Win2000 & WinNT FAT Problem

Hi All,

This is a hard one and I'll give here a small explanation.

Old drive and bios situation

C-Drive => windows NT V4 (2GB primary master)
D-Drive => datadisk (8 GB primary slave)

Both drives are NTFS formatted. (Running win NT V4)

New drive and bios situation

C-Drive => Win2000 (8 GB primary master)
D-Drive => Win NT & backup old d-drive. (2 GB primary slave)

What did I do..

First I created a backup from the D-drive (data) to the C-drive.
Than I switched both harddrives primary master to slave and
primary slave to master, yes also the jumpers.

I didn't connect the primary slave drive and updated the bios.
I think this is all normal.

Now I formatted the primary master and installed windows 2000.
No problem and everythings works.


Here it comes....

I coneect the primary slave and again updated the bios.
After rsstarting my computer, windows 2000 checks the primary
slave and tells me that it whansn't a win2000 drive.

Win2000 checks the fat table and tells me that the problem
has been solved.
I can see both drives, and they are both NTFS.
When I want to use the primary slave I can't read the
information.

Error message : E:\ is not accessible
the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

I suppose that the NTFS on WinNT and Win2000 aren't the
same otherwise I don't know what happened.

I put that drive into another computer to try restarting
with windows NT, because all data is still on that drive,
but nothing happens, so the fat table mustl be destroyed by
win2000.

Anyone can tell me if that's a bug or did I do something wrong.
The big problem is that I can't restore my backup and it makes
me very very mad. :mad: :mad: :mad: :confused:


cheers
Ray

Only NT4 SP4 NTFS is compatible with Win2000, that might be your problem.

I thought it was SP5. Anyway, get SP6a just because you can. :)

Well...

That could be the reason, but is there any solution
to get it fixed or to read the drive?

We tryed with nt4 sp6 but the screen went black with
blinking cursor, nothing else happens.


Ray

Yes it was SP5, I knew it was the last one available and I forgot about 5 (and 6 which I didn't know about in the first place)

I think you should wipe everything and start again marex, it sound pretty terminal. Remember to install SP5 before installing 2000.

Did you ever try the simple things, like running a Scandisk? :D :D :D

is it compressed NTFS?

Partition magic might be able to convert the NTFS to Fat32 so you can at least get your data.

It is terminal I think, I don't need NT4 anymore it was just
to try to recover the backup files from that corrupted drive.

Next time I'll put backups on a cd .

So problem will be solved by formatting the second drive.

Thanks for the support.

Ray

[b]jpbtennisman[/b

Scandisk won't work, unreadable.

It is not compressed NTFS.

The tip on partition magic, oke, I will try that


Thanks
Ray

I tryed with PM but nothing works.
Can't convert to fat32.

Master File Table corrupted or unreadable.

Any new ideas or is this terminal.
I'll wait until 20.00PM and then format the drive.

Isn't there anything as a disc doctor?


Thanks


Ray