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    Default data on slave drive missing after Windows 2000 install

    I had Windows 98 on my Pc, I put a new hard disk into the Pc and made it the master and the old disk with windows 98 the slave.
    I then installed windows 2000 on the PC, on the install, I told windows to leave the disk format as is (Not NTFS).

    Everything went well except that the original hard disk with windows on it seems to have no files on it, The properties show it as 0 bytes. I did not do any backups, as I did not think the windows install would affect or touch the data on the slave drive (old Disk).

    If I try and access the old disk now it gives me a message do I want to format.

    Have I really lost the data or do I need to do something with windows 2000 to recognise the data on the old disk.

    I will try switching the cables on the drives tonight and make the old disk the master again and see if it boots up 98.

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    Default Re: data on slave drive missing after Windows 2000 install

    sounds like the partition information has been deleted. grab yourself a copy of partition magic and recover the partition. That should bring everything back for you.

    Also on your new HD unless you want to be able to access it from your windows 98 partition, use NTFS as its a much better file system than Fat32.

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