Unreadable Hard Disk!

Hello - here's what happened. I upgraded my server, basically all I kept was the two hard drives from the old machine. The one hard drive is for the system files (~13GB) and the other is for storage, user files, etc (~160GB). I figured that then I reinstalled Windows 2000 Server on the System disk, I would just have to assign the other disk a drive letter and be on my way.

Instead, in the disk management console, I get "Disk 1 [the 160GB) Dynamic Unreadable" I can revert to a basic disk, but it says I will lose all my information.

It is imperative that the data on this disk be recovered.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
PJ

 

Windows XP will not read drives over 130 gb unless you have SP1 installed.

 

It's running Windows 2000 Server, but your coment did give me an idea. I'll report back if it worked.

 

Ok, I got it to work, the registry needed to be edited to enable drives >130GB.

Thanks!

 

great!! I suppose SP4 or whatever sp version Windows 2000 Server is up to now a days makes this change for you.

Where in the reg did you make this change, just curious!!!

 

Actually, I used the MaxBlast! Program that came with my Maxtor hard drive. It makes the registry change automatically for you.