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Dissappeared HD partitions after W2k Sp2 update.

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I have Windows 98 SE installed on c: drive and I installed Windows 2000 on d: drive. After I installed Sp2 to update Win 2k, some of my partitions disappered.

Here are my drive config.
Drive 1 - c:,e:,f:,g: (DiamondMax Plus 40 UDMA/100)
Drive 2 - d:,h: (Quantum UDMA/33)

All partitions are FAT32 and both drives are using UDMA/33, since thats as fast as the motherboard supports.

I could only see all of drive 2 - d: and h: drive. I can also see c: from drive 1 and when I click on it, it asks me if i want to format it when I already have it all partitioned. I could see all my drives before the Sp2 update (Just Win2k with no Sp1 or Sp2) and in Win 98.

Please help.

<i>DMA - Doesn't Mean Anything :wink: </i>

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Remove the Cylinder Limitation jumper (J46) on the Maxtor and make sure you are using the latest bios for the motherboard.

This is not a problem with Win2000 but a problem with drive parameter translation by the bios.

This problem came up often when Win2000 was introduced but with the retirement of older hardware you don't see it much anymore.

Reply to Anonymous

Thanks.

Never though about it being a hardware problem.

<i>DMA - Doesn't Mean Anything :wink: </i>

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