Installed win2000 on top of Win98

[Jay01]

Hi there,

I have installed win2000 on top of Win98 with the file format NTFS in one partition of the disk (C. Now the file I had in D disk, can't find.

Is there any way to find those file. Any help regarding this is extremely valuable to me and will be highly appreciated.

Jay

 

[colins]

What is the format of disk d ? Have you ever format it when you installed win2000? If you log on win2000, this OS can read FAT32 and NTFS both, but win98 can only read FAT32.

 

[Jay01]

Thanks Collin. I had one Physical disk which was logically partitioned as C & D with under WIN98. To have a clean installation, I copied some documents in D disk and formatted the C: disk with DOS format command first. When I installed win2000 I put it in C: with the option NTFS. I did not touched D. After installation I see D disk does not have any file on it.
I am wondering, If I install WIN98 in D partition with its existing FAT32 file system, would that be any good.

Thanks once again.

Jay

 

[Hungster]

it will not work with co-existed with win2k dual boot

if you do dual boot, you need to get win98 install first and then win2k after on other partition

 

[Jay01]

Is there any way to get those file back from D partition. If I reformat my C: with fat32 and install win98, would that be any good. I can see now D is total blank. I did not format this partition.

 

[colins]

Is it really blank in disk d? So you won't see your lost files just by reinstalling any OS. If you are sure that you did't ever format disk d, the data of your lost files maybe exists. The only way to recover it is using some special software. But that won't completely recover anyhow.

 

[Hungster]

in the dos day, there ia a command you can unformat right after you accidentally format

i don't know this feature still around to work, if you just format it, it might work, if you have writen data on to d drive then you are pretty much done