acroniscronie
IS-IT--Management
I rebuilt a server yesterday and as part of my initial activities loaded service pack 2 onto it.
I then connected up my USB connected SATA hard disk drive to transfer some data back onto my rebuilt Windows 2003 server.
Despite the fact that this particular external disk was already formatted using NTFS and that it contained a few GB of data, the act of connecting it up to my server kicked off the "Initialize a basic disk" wizard.
I duly went through the wizard and the result was that the disk now appears in computer management without a drive letter. Also, and more importantly for me I can't see any of the data that was originally on the disk.
The disk now reports that it is in an unformatted (RAW) state. I'm loathed to lose the data on this external drive so I was hoping that someone knew how to revert the changes that were made by the wizard.
Does anyone know if this is an issue with SP2 or is this just an unfortunate coincidence?
Any ideas?
I then connected up my USB connected SATA hard disk drive to transfer some data back onto my rebuilt Windows 2003 server.
Despite the fact that this particular external disk was already formatted using NTFS and that it contained a few GB of data, the act of connecting it up to my server kicked off the "Initialize a basic disk" wizard.
I duly went through the wizard and the result was that the disk now appears in computer management without a drive letter. Also, and more importantly for me I can't see any of the data that was originally on the disk.
The disk now reports that it is in an unformatted (RAW) state. I'm loathed to lose the data on this external drive so I was hoping that someone knew how to revert the changes that were made by the wizard.
Does anyone know if this is an issue with SP2 or is this just an unfortunate coincidence?
Any ideas?
