Hello... I'm new here. I'm a little surprised that I've never stumbled across this forum before, but I'm glad I finally have.
To get straight to the point, I've got a fairly major problem. I have two hard drives, a Western Digital 120gb, and a Maxtor 180gb -- which has always needed Dynamic Drive Overlay installed in order to function properly. Each drive has two partitions.
I recently upgraded my motherboard and switched all of my hardware (video card, memory, ect) from my old computer to this new one. In the process, I had some difficulties and removed the DDO from the hard drives. Everything went mostly successful (I did have to reinstall windows, though), except for the Maxtor drive.
Windows is showing the drive as a 0-byte RAW partition, with neither partition showing up (it's labeled as Local Disk instead). I've used the MaxBlast 3 boot disk that came with it, and its able to recognize the partitions correctly. However, when I go to set up DDO, all of the options are greyed out.
I've tried making a DDO floppy boot disk using MaxBlast, but it tells me that none of my drives need DDO. I also tried putting the drive in my wife's computer, assuming the problem might simply be the new motherboard, but the options were still greyed out.
Is there any way to get windows to recognize my disk without losing the data on it?
Any help is appreciated. :smile:
To get straight to the point, I've got a fairly major problem. I have two hard drives, a Western Digital 120gb, and a Maxtor 180gb -- which has always needed Dynamic Drive Overlay installed in order to function properly. Each drive has two partitions.
I recently upgraded my motherboard and switched all of my hardware (video card, memory, ect) from my old computer to this new one. In the process, I had some difficulties and removed the DDO from the hard drives. Everything went mostly successful (I did have to reinstall windows, though), except for the Maxtor drive.
Windows is showing the drive as a 0-byte RAW partition, with neither partition showing up (it's labeled as Local Disk instead). I've used the MaxBlast 3 boot disk that came with it, and its able to recognize the partitions correctly. However, when I go to set up DDO, all of the options are greyed out.
I've tried making a DDO floppy boot disk using MaxBlast, but it tells me that none of my drives need DDO. I also tried putting the drive in my wife's computer, assuming the problem might simply be the new motherboard, but the options were still greyed out.
Is there any way to get windows to recognize my disk without losing the data on it?
Any help is appreciated. :smile: