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by lncrwley

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I'm running Windows 2000 Pro. I have 2 hard drives. The first is 4 gig and I keep that only for my OS. The second drive is 30 gig partitioned into 5 drives. I had a corrupted partition on my C drive and had to reformat it. Everything went smoothly until I tried to access my other drives. When I right click my computer and select manage, it shows 2 drives. The top right shows a healthy, active F drive of 5.71 GB and my C drive. Now when I look toward the bottom, the F drive is reported as 28.61 GB. I tried to rescan and it won't pick up the other partitions. The programs in the first partition (F drive) are just as they should be. How can I get Windows 2000 to recognize the other drives? I need to access the data on them. Thanks!

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by mike jones

Move your CD drives to a high drive letter and reboot and see if Windows redisplays the drives.

They might be fighting for the same drive letter.

Also, try using a boot disk and fdisk to view and double check that the partitions are ok.

by lncrwley

I tried switching the drive letters and it didn't work, even after rebooting. I did fdisk and even though windows only sees the first drive as 5 gig, fdisk only saw 504 mb! I'm going to get a copy of partition magic and see if I can't at least see the partitions that way.

by lncrwley

Partition Magic was no help however it told me that my Roxio Go Back is in control of the missing drives. Because Go Back was on the drive that was formatted, I can't do a proper uninstall. I tried to reinstall it but it said that Go Back is still on the second hard drive and wouldn't install. Roxio offers no support after 90 days (it's past that). I did a search of that hard drive, of what I could see, and there's no entry for Roxio. Does the second hard drive (not bootable) have an MBR? CouldRoxio be hiding in there? How would I access it?

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