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Windows can't see my additional hard drives

by Chewchilla Nov 25, 2003 12:28AM PST

Ok I know I've done this before without a hitch but I can't seem to remember how to do it now.

I just redid my system - switching from Win2k to WinME (because 2k won't support my $1000 piece of video capture hardware and there's NO way I'm buying an updated one).

The problem is I had 3 drives on that computer, drive C handled the windows system and the other two contain all my games, music, videos, etc. So I install ME on drive C, leaving the other two alone, but now Windoes can't see the other two drives. Bios sees them and so does Device Manager (but no drive letters have been assigned and I can't seem to assign them manually), but I can't access them. My first guess was some kind of incompatibility with partitioning in 2K, but even non-file managing programs like scandisk can't see it either. How do I get windows to see them?

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Windows can't see NTFS partitions.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 25, 2003 12:55AM PST

This is TRUE!

I wonder what video capture you had since some can be quite cheap now. Those 1,000 dollar units many years ago are sadly eclipsed by 29 dollar TV/Video cards, bundled software packages, Virtual Dub and more.

It would be a bad idea to me to move to the worst Windows version ever IN MY OPINION since you get all the headaches of Windows such as 2 or 4 Gigabyte file size limits, 64 thousand byte memory pools and the list goes on and one. But that's another story.

-> ON TOP OF ALL THAT! You can't use NTFSDOS to access and pull off your files with Windows ME. Truly another thorn in our sides.

My bet. The other drives are NTFS.

Bob

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Re:Windows can't see NTFS partitions.
by Chewchilla Nov 25, 2003 1:22AM PST

At least one of the drives once worked in ME, so I would've hoped it'd see at least one of them. So my best bet would be to reinstall 2K, xfer the drives to another computer via LAN, then install the other OS and xfer the data back to the original drives?

As for the capture card, it's a Pinnacle Systems (Miro) DC30 - handles full TV resolution in and out, works perfectly with Adobe Premiere, and has a non-lossy compression scheme for editing and re-rendering but still plays incredibly smooth.

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Re:Re:Windows can't see NTFS partitions.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 25, 2003 1:42AM PST
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support/display.asp?FileID=357&ProductID=314 noted Windows 2000 support.

BUT a nagging problem for Windows 2000 users (and ME!) are motherboard drivers and other hardware that Microsoft does NOT install or fetch or much else. We get to handle this ourselves.

Best of luck in your data recovery efforts.

Be careful since Windows 9x/ME has some limitations of 4 GB file sizes which I would often exceed. It's why I can't use this OS for work anymore.

Best of luck,
Bob
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Re:Re:Re:Windows can't see NTFS partitions.
by Chewchilla Nov 25, 2003 1:54AM PST

Thanx. But yes I have tried that patch before, about 100 times but it doesn't seem to work. It doesn't like something about the driver.

I'll try it one more time when I get Win2k back on there, before I install anything else. Maybe a fresh install will do the trick.

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