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Unmountable disk?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:42 pm
by Foo
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?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:31 pm
by axbaby
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?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:18 pm
by DiscoDave
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.
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:09 pm
by Foo
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.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:18 am
by SOAPboy
What "was" this drive before? raid or anything?
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:51 am
by Foo
Standard single partition FAT32 5Gb Parallell ATA @5200RPM with a Windows 95 boot volume.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:24 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
Delete the partition... reacreate it, then format it...
That SHOULD work.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:48 pm
by Foo
Not one for reading threads lately eh sir
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:51 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
aww! ya got me!!!
Have you tryed running something like Damned small Linux and seeing if it would read it?
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:51 pm
by Foo
Foo wrote:I sidestepped it by using a PC without a load of fancy raid systems
Cheers for the ideas.
Gotcha again
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:55 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
loller, i shoulda got more sleep lastnight
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:45 pm
by SOAPboy
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..
