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Thread ID: 88821 2008-04-10 06:06:00 Windows 2000 pro not seeing all logical drives mzee (3324) Press F1
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657625 2008-04-10 06:06:00 I have just installed Windows 2000 sp2 to see what it is like.
It is on the 2nd primary partition on a 140gig drive. There are 4 logical drives, 1 NTFS, 1 EXT2, 2 Fat32.

The Fat32 contain Data & should be visible to most Windows systems.

When XP is booted (partition1) all other partitions are visible in the disk manager.
With Windows 2000 all partitions are visible except the 4th logical Fat32. Disk Manager shows it as an unallocated space.
Puppy Linux in the Ext2 partition mounts all.

Why should this be?
mzee (3324)
657626 2008-04-10 06:14:00 Update to SP4, and then install the rest of the updates Speedy Gonzales (78)
657627 2008-04-11 06:14:00 Updated to SP4 + later updates. Still does not see the 4th logical partition and crashes when a Browser fetches a page. (both IE6 & Firefox) The IE6-sp1 is an update on IE5.

It also tends to say that a file is not Win32. It did this several times before SP4 would install.:help:
mzee (3324)
657628 2008-04-12 10:58:00 Done it all again.
The secret is to install sp4 first & then the motherboard drivers. Everything works fine now & stable.
mzee (3324)
657629 2008-04-12 11:14:00 Thats true with any version of Windows

Install the OS, mobo / chipset drivers, then sound/LAN all the other drivers
Speedy Gonzales (78)
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