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My friend had 2 hard drives in his comp and was running Win2k. The system drive was an 80 GB and he had a 200 GB drive for storage. He wanted to use WinXP so he saved everything to the 200 GB drive, formatted the 80 GB and installed WinXP.
This is where the problem started. When XP started up it recognized his 200 GB drive and installed it, but it says the drive is empty. When you try to explore the 200 GB drive, it gives an error saying the drive is not formatted, would you like to format it now? In Windows disk management the drive shows up as dynamic instead of basic and it shows the drive as completely empty with no partitions.
My friend doesn't know much about computers so he doesn't know how his drives were setup with Win2k.
Does anybody have any ideas on how to see the data on the 200 GB drive? Thanks.
This is where the problem started. When XP started up it recognized his 200 GB drive and installed it, but it says the drive is empty. When you try to explore the 200 GB drive, it gives an error saying the drive is not formatted, would you like to format it now? In Windows disk management the drive shows up as dynamic instead of basic and it shows the drive as completely empty with no partitions.
My friend doesn't know much about computers so he doesn't know how his drives were setup with Win2k.
Does anybody have any ideas on how to see the data on the 200 GB drive? Thanks.