Windows 2000 SP-2 Issues

[Guest_imported]

I have recently installed Windows 2000 Pro on my PC.I have two hard drives. After the install of Win 2000 on one, I upgraded it to SP-2 for the security patches that it contains. After the installation was complete and the PC was rebooted, I had noticed that I could not read the second drive correctly. It asked if I wanted to reformat the drive and I did but as soon as the formatting made it to 100%, it said that the format had failed. I was, before applying the SP-2 upgrade, able to access the drive without a problem. Is this a known problem or is it just me.

Thanks!

 

[rtaylor]

go into disk management in Computer Management...Start...settings...control panel...administrative tools...Computer Managerment...Disk Management.

Can you see the drive there? It will show as Disk 1 (hard drives are number 0-4 with 0 being the first drive) If not, there may be an issue with the drive itself. Reboot and go into your BIOS setup and see if it is detected by the BIOS. If it isn't, you may have a motherboard issue, IDE controller issue or a bad cable. If it is seen there...does it have a drive letter assigned? If not, right click on it and assign a drive letter. If it does, and you can't access the drive, try reformatting it.

If you are not able to reformat the drive but it has a driver letter, type this from the command prompt:

chkdsk <drive letter>: /f /r

An example would be 'chkdsk : /f /r

You may have to reboot the machine in order for the check disk to work.