re: "Disk in drive 'X' is not formatted. Do you format this disk now?" Error
Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Nathan
(9 messages posted)
Hi Geek,
Thank you for the reply but in the end things got so intolerable I just formatted
the W2K drive, and I have literally only just got back online from rebuilding that
about 20 minutes.
I think (not sure) that I have completely lost the Xp Pro Sp2 drive as well now,
because it is caught in the Autochk bootup loop, and I cannot get out of it and revover
the drive or its contents. Maybe you might know?...Otherwise I had resigned myself
to formatting that later and starting over again too.
To answer your questions, I did not install any update from W2K auto update but the
latest version of the 'Malicious Removal Tool'. Trying to find that swine to maybe
to take it out again (if it was the problem) was near impossible to locate. I was
interested in your comment about Xp being able to possible save the other partition,
and would appreciate the advise for the future should it ever happen again...please!?
Both were/are physical drives W2K 80GB and Xp Pro 40GB both IDE. OS Loader is a great
small piece of software that allows you to choose which drive to boot from before
an OS and drive are chosen. So that way you can have multiple trays of drives if
you want (I dont), and just interconnect if need be. Look it up...its great!
What happened is that though the two drives could read each other, and third external
too (if connected) the parititions just suddenly failed to be accessed, only the
option to format them was offered, when clearly I didn't need it. And the main drive
(the W2K reverted to RAW) which would allow no Chkdsk option.
Not be able to do without my PC, and having tried everything I listed, I felt I had
no choice, but I would love to hear the options you might have suggested.
Thanks for your time, and happy new year!
Nathan
On Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 9:40 am, geek9pm wrote:
>Did you recently update to SP4 on the Wins2K?
>After reading your post, I would not do anything. All of the things lyou tried should
>have worked.
>Here is a question. What are your internal drives? Are the IDE (ATA) or SATA? What
>size? How mauny partitions?
>Until you know what the problem is, you need to be careful. If the XP is working
>alright, it can make a backup of the Win2K partition.
>What is OSLoader? Does it have options to 'Hide' partitions and drives?
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