Win2000 on SATA not recognizing old IDE drive 2

[rd400guy]

I just replaced my old Gateway (bought before I knew anything about computers). Anyhow, new mobo has 2 serial ATA ports, and I bought a new 80GB Samsung SATA for use as my primary HDD (boot drive w/ Windows 2000 installed). Mobo naturally has IDE1 and IDE2 slots as well.

The problem is, I can't get the new system to recognize my old IBM 20GB IDE drive (btw, old system was Win 98). The IBM drive has been in master and slave positions on both IDE ports, with jumpers set accordingly, and even cable select. BIOS recognizes the old drive every time.

Win2k DOES recognize IDE drive if I'm jumpered for 2GB clip (but then it only sees 2GB of the drive not the whole 20.5GB, where most of what I want is), but then when I try to access the old drive I get the "Drive not formatted, do you want to now?" dialog box. Of course I do not want to format it... I want the files off of it!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Freestone]

Was a program called GoBack installed on the old drive? If so, then GoBack has to be installed on the new drive, or the old drive booted and GoBack removed.

 

[rd400guy]

Yeah, go back was installed. I'll try it.

 

[rd400guy]

Well I'll be dipped in .... and rolled in breadcrumbs!!! It worked. Everything's there. Actually, I didn't even have to uninstall it. I just set BIOS to boot from the old drive and GoBack pops up before windows, and there's an option to disable it. So I did, rebooted, and set BIOS to look for my SATA with Win2k this time, and voila, Win2k, E drive recognized, and all of my files there! You're a lifesaver. Thanks a ton! A star for you!

 

[Freestone]

I'm glad you were able to get access to your files! And thanks for your feedback, especially about disabling GoBack rather than uninstalling. That's good for future reference.

 

[rd400guy]

Since I got everything working last night, another question came to mind, and that is: Why would GoBack make a drive unreadable? Now I'm just curious.

 

[Freestone]

It's not a matter of the drive being unreadable, but rather how the partition is being presented to the OS. GoBack uses a partition identifier of 44 hexadecimal. This identifier is not recognized by Windows Disk management, and I'm not sure just what other operating systems would recognize it. When you remove GoBack, or in your case disable it, the partition identifier is changed to one that is recognized by Windows Management.