I bought one of those Hitachi 160's on-sale specials over Xmas.
Installed it and ran setup CD; got message indicating I couldn't exceed 137 gigs in one partition (windows 2000) without getting a file from internet -or- I could accept 137 gig limitation and proceed. I proceeded; setup finished fine.
I then ghosted contents of my primary 40 gig drive to the 160, switched the jumpers around and made the 160(137) my new primary drive. For a couple of days everything worked great. The 160 would boot fine and worked great. During this perior I loaded about 100 gig of "files" onto the drive, files which are not backed up elsewhere and are not unavailable to me.
Two days ago I got an "error loading operating system" message. I tried to load windows from my windows installation CD. It booted okay, but then it wanted to copy OS files to the hard drive, so I stopped it.
I then changed jumpers so my 40 gig would again be primary and booted from that. But, when trying to access files on the 160 (now as drive g:) it tells me I need to reformat the drive.
Anybody got any ideas on how to get to the files on drive g (the 160 gig drive) without having to reformat.
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