yossarianpickwick
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- Mar 19, 2005
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Hi all.
I feel like a total dolt and hope someone here can help me.
I recently fitted a new PC together and was taking my old HDD's and fitting them in the new box.
I had two 30gb drives Raid 0'd together and because they were getting a bit long in the tooth, I thought I'd move the data onto a new 200gb sata drive and wipe the disks / treat them individually (fearing hd failure within the next year).
Now... (and here is where I start to look stupid)
I get windows xp running off an old disk (one of 5 in the box)
I notice that the SATA drive isn't there.
I look in disk management and see my 200gb drive represented as a 130ish gb one that needs 'initializing' - at that point I hadn't read the "answers" sticky so actually thought it was some bug - but I'm under pressure to work work work just now so I figured I'd just go with the flow.
It offered to make this new 130gb drive dynamic or basic. I commited the mortal sin of choosing without figuring out what the heck the difference was and I chose dynamic (because it sounded cooler). This is where you can feel free to pour your scorn on me.
Anyway.
Long story short, I'm running windows on the Sata Drive's 60ish gb partition (that XP found when installing) and I have wiped my old Raided drives and I now can't see the 130gb disk.
it's in the disk manager as a "dynamic drive" that is unreadable. Partition magic can't access it - if I ask windows to install on it, it says it'll have to convert it to basic disk and i'll lose my data.
so thats my quandry. I have 130gb of 'stuff' that I can't get because neither of the two windows installations left in this machine (one on an oooollld disk, one on the new sata disk) can access this drive.
Is there any way to get this drive mounted without buggering up the data?
I feel like a total dolt and hope someone here can help me.
I recently fitted a new PC together and was taking my old HDD's and fitting them in the new box.
I had two 30gb drives Raid 0'd together and because they were getting a bit long in the tooth, I thought I'd move the data onto a new 200gb sata drive and wipe the disks / treat them individually (fearing hd failure within the next year).
Now... (and here is where I start to look stupid)
I get windows xp running off an old disk (one of 5 in the box)
I notice that the SATA drive isn't there.
I look in disk management and see my 200gb drive represented as a 130ish gb one that needs 'initializing' - at that point I hadn't read the "answers" sticky so actually thought it was some bug - but I'm under pressure to work work work just now so I figured I'd just go with the flow.
It offered to make this new 130gb drive dynamic or basic. I commited the mortal sin of choosing without figuring out what the heck the difference was and I chose dynamic (because it sounded cooler). This is where you can feel free to pour your scorn on me.
Anyway.
Long story short, I'm running windows on the Sata Drive's 60ish gb partition (that XP found when installing) and I have wiped my old Raided drives and I now can't see the 130gb disk.
it's in the disk manager as a "dynamic drive" that is unreadable. Partition magic can't access it - if I ask windows to install on it, it says it'll have to convert it to basic disk and i'll lose my data.
so thats my quandry. I have 130gb of 'stuff' that I can't get because neither of the two windows installations left in this machine (one on an oooollld disk, one on the new sata disk) can access this drive.
Is there any way to get this drive mounted without buggering up the data?