Migrated FAT32 HD w/ Data to W2K:Problems

[projectlogic]

30 gig FAT32 Maxtor HD (one big partition), took out of Win98 machine and added to W2K machine successfully. Disk Management recognizes the drive, the OS installed the drivers under Device Manager with no issues.

BIOS shows the drive as well with no issues.

IT Consultant advised me that reading the drive would not be problem from W2K and that all I would need to do is install it.

Everytime I click on the drive in Explorer, it asks me to format...it doesn't recognize that it has data on it.

How do I get to my data, can I get around this or do I need to pull it and make a backup.

Thanks, Mel

 

[wolluf]

There's no overlay software installed on this drive is there? (that would stop 2k recognizing the partition).

If there's not - suggest remove and reinstalling it (second drive). This has worked for me a couple of times.

 

[projectlogic]

This might be a dumb question but...
Could you define overlay software for me?


Thanks, Mel

 

[wolluf]

Software which allows a large drive to be used in a machine where mobo/bios would not normally be able to process full size of drive (eg, depending on age of mobo/bios, drives > 528MB, 2.1GB, 8GB, 32GB, 127GB). Maxblast is an example (for Maxtor drives)

 

[projectlogic]

I did run Maxblast to install the drive initially but it didn't seem to recognize the drive using that software. I will look at it and attempt to uninstall and reinstall and see if that takes care of it.

Thanks for your help.

Mel