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by singhjunk

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My Server has drive C and drive D: both NTFS. I rebooted the server and server rebooted just fine but when trying to see drive D, I get the error message

unrecognized disk partition

Please help. How do I fix it and the OS is NT 4.0 .

Thanks!

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by paul d. masley

The easiest way and I hope that you have Partition Magic 6.0 in your little bag of goodies is to use this program. The great thing about it is that is will run direct from windows.

If this does not help, I suggest that you open the case and see if the drive D: cables are tight.

I do not understand the UDP error as NTFS can usually see through a faulty partition, unless the MBR for that drive has become corrupt. PM 6 can repair a bad MBR.

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by maxwell edison

The first thing to do is to check the BIOS to see if the physical drive is even being detected. If the BIOS IS NOT detecting the drive, check to see if the cable came loose. If the BIOS is not detecting that drive, and the cable is fine then you have a drive that failed. (And I'm assuming that the jumper settings on the drive are correct since the drive "used to" work.) If the BIOS IS detecting BOTH drives, then you have a configuration issue with NT - in which case you'll have to define (redefine) that drive in Disk Administrator. (Start/Programs/Administrative Tools/Disk Administrator)

Hope this helps,

Max

by mckaytech

Are these two separate physical drives or two logical partitions on the same physical drive?

paul

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