Q: Ive never encountered this issue before. I converted from RAID 0 to RAID 1. I have a backup all my data onto a Maxtor 200GB, WinXP SP1 I ran. On a fresh install, it says my Maxtor drive is “unreadable”. I can convert a basic disk, but lose all my data! I can not lose, I have a lot of important things of life. Please help! Will I be able to recognize after installing SP2?
I serious about a blackout at the thought of losing all my data, please help!
Re:porn porn porn.. porn porn.. porn porn porn HAH kidding..
Re:haha, you all are funny….the pr0n is safe as can be
I have tons of digital video and pictures of my kids, as well as all my wife's work files..she works from home. Add that with all the games I have, and I need a LOT of space.
FYI, SP1 does recognize it. I started with a fresh install without SP1. I went from clean install straight to SP2, and then the drive was fine as could be 
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
Very odd that XP SP1 couldn't see it; I'm running SP1 yet on my main system – I don't want to lose the install I've got to something stupid caused by SP2. But it's already been used with drives up to 250GB without trouble.
he mentioned it was a clean xp install, with no service packs.. win xp requires service pack 1a to recognize drives of that capacity.
so, he could have just installed service pack 1a, instead of sp2
Except that SP1 isn't 100% "48-bit LBA clean" – it still has some bugs that will corrupt data on larger HDs, unless you installed the latest post-SP1 DISK.SYS/ATAPI.SYS hotfix as well. But SP1 should have at least recogized it, at least, even if it would have been corrupting it in the process of using it. 
Probably best that it didn't, then 
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
Very odd that XP SP1 couldn't see it; I'm running SP1 yet on my main system – I don't want to lose the install I've got to something stupid caused by SP2. But it's already been used with drives up to 250GB without trouble.
he mentioned it was a clean xp install, with no service packs.. win xp requires service pack 1a to recognize drives of that capacity.
so, he could have just installed service pack 1a, instead of sp2
Except that SP1 isn't 100% "48-bit LBA clean" – it still has some bugs that will corrupt data on larger HDs, unless you installed the latest post-SP1 DISK.SYS/ATAPI.SYS hotfix as well. But SP1 should have at least recogized it, at least, even if it would have been corrupting it in the process of using it.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Very odd that XP SP1 couldn't see it; I'm running SP1 yet on my main system – I don't want to lose the install I've got to something stupid caused by SP2. But it's already been used with drives up to 250GB without trouble.
he mentioned it was a clean xp install, with no service packs.. win xp requires service pack 1a to recognize drives of that capacity.
so, he could have just installed service pack 1a, instead of sp2
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Thank god, it would suck to lose that much pron…;)
You aint kidding.
Re:Very odd that XP SP1 couldn't see it; I'm running SP1 yet on my main system – I don't want to lose the install I've got to something stupid caused by SP2. But it's already been used with drives up to 250GB without trouble.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Thank god, it would suck to lose that much pron…;)
No one really needs that big of a drive if they just have apps and music. LOL.
I feel ya. Them pron takes up alot of space.
Re:Thank god, it would suck to lose that much pron…;)
Re:WOOHOO!!!!!!! It was a size issue….SP2 fixed it!!!!!!! Thanks guys!
Re:Hopefully your thinking is correct and it is just the drive size limitation of XP without the service pack that is causing the error.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
I don't know how I could have, it's on a different controller than the modified RAID disks. I'll have to make a boot disk and see if I can see it……not sure what drive it will show up as though. waiting for xp sp2 to finish downloading.
Did you convert the drive to a Dynamic Disk?
Re:I don't know how I could have, it's on a different controller than the modified RAID disks. I'll have to make a boot disk and see if I can see it……not sure what drive it will show up as though. waiting for xp sp2 to finish downloading.
Re:If you boot to DOS from a floppy, can you see the drive and it's directories?
I hope you didn't accidentally modify the drive when you were setting up the other two while building the array.
Re:It's just a basic NTFS disk….my backup just consisted of copying files on that disk, no official way of backing up. I have done this countless times before, but never with a disk this size..usually 40gb disks or such and never had an issue before. Could this be a size issue? Am I totally screwed?
To top it off, my sp2 download had 1mb left to go and it just stopped 
I'm downloading it again.
Re:Okay, fresh install of XP, no service packs installed yet. About to do SP2.
2 hours ago system was fine and drive was accessible before the change to RAID 1. This was just an extra drive in my system on an IDE controller, not one of the 2 SATA drives on the VIA RAID controller (K8V deluxe mobo). I changed no jumpers or hardware at all, just set my 2 80gb drives to RAID 1. The 200gb drive was never touched. This is very odd and I'm freaked out.
Re:On the new install of XP, make sure your username and password are exactly the same as the old install. If you backed up to protected folders, XP may be preventing you from reading them. How did you do the backukp? straight copy, Ghost, etc.?
What do you mean you could convert it to a basic disk? What is ist now?
Re:Need more info, as in; Software or Hardware Raid, Did you change the Stripe or Cluster size,etc…
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