Unmountable disk?

Post by **Foo** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:42 pm

Just added a FAT32 disc to my system to get some files off, have finally navigated through my nvidia RAID bios and set the drive as a JBOD volume (could figure out absolutely no other way to get the disk to be seen in windows).

Now it's visible in windows under Disk Managent, but cannot be mounted:

Any idea how I can get into this and just get the data off?

Post by **axbaby** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:31 pm

a few idea's .. warning these may be dumb/dangerous ideas.
-boot with win98 cd .. other drives may not even be detected
-win98 bootdisk http://www.bootdisk.com

does the drive have an operating system installed if so unplug the other drives and copy stuff to cd/dvd drive or memory stick?

Post by **DiscoDave** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:18 pm

Does it dispay in the device manager? Im pretty sure XP/2K can read FAT32 no probs but I would be really surprised if you got 98 to read an NTFS drive.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:09 pm

Twas running '95. Which hates booting into an unfamiliar hardware config.

Well by hates I mean wont. I didn't manage to solve the problem but I sidestepped it by using a PC without a load of fancy raid systems (this PC has 3 or 4 raid controllers in it and doing anything with disks is... messy).

Cheers for the ideas.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:18 am

What "was" this drive before? raid or anything?

Post by **Foo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:51 am

Standard single partition FAT32 5Gb Parallell ATA @5200RPM with a Windows 95 boot volume.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:24 pm

Delete the partition... reacreate it, then format it...

That SHOULD work.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:48 pm

Not one for reading threads lately eh sir

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:51 pm

aww! ya got me!!!

Have you tryed running something like Damned small Linux and seeing if it would read it?

Post by **Foo** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:51 pm

Foo wrote:I sidestepped it by using a PC without a load of fancy raid systems

Cheers for the ideas.

Gotcha again

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:55 pm

loller, i shoulda got more sleep lastnight

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:45 pm

Foo wrote:Standard single partition FAT32 5Gb Parallell ATA @5200RPM with a Windows 95 boot volume.

Try converting it to NTFS via command prompt.. system "sees" it, but its not giving it a drive letter.. hm..

Got a working drive laying about thats not doing anything.. you could "merge" the one your trying to save with a working partition and yank the data off it..