harddrive storage

New to the site so if this has already happened before let me know



I have a 60gig hard drive that i used as my main drive, one day i turned on my system and it would load xo all the way to the logon menu and then restart itself and continue this cycle, I then began to look into what was wrong, I turned it off and restarted it gave me the blue screen and i havent gotten any farther.



then i took out my ghosted hard drive that is a 20gig and it loaded xp no problem. but it says that i only have 2gigs of storage





at my wits end with this and help would be great. Cannot format the 60gig, to much on it that i cant get back



system specs

Athlon XP 1.3ghz

512ddr ram

Win XP

The only 2GB storage, is that an issue with the drive or are you just saying you've used that much?



As for the 60GB, can you slave it to the 20GB and access your files? If you have a burner you could copy the stuff over that way? Or have you tried the Repair option on the windows setup disk?(booting to it)



Oh, and if the 20G has nothing important on it, you could make a BartPE(just search google) disk, boot to that, then format your 20G and copy stuff from your 60 on to it...assuming 20G is enought

the issue with the 2gig is that its a 20gig with xp installed and its only saying i have only 2gigs total in xp as the master drive.

ive tried slaving the 60gig but it wont let me load windows, i also tried slaving it on a computer with 98se and it never made it past the IDE check

as for burning stuff i would love to be able to do that because i only really need the installers for stuff and a few documents.

Hmm... I still don't quite understand the problem with the 20GB. I mean XP only needs about 2GB for a clean install. But that's beside the point.

All I can say is be sure everything is setup correctly on the 60GB when you try to slave it. Well, and the master drive too. Western Digital drives are very picky about being a master with a slave or without a slave(different jumpers) That's of course if you have a WD Also, you realize if the 60GB drive is formated using NTFS, you can't view anything on it in Windows 98, right? You'd need some 3rd party application or something.

Um, I can't think much else to do really. Try it in some other computers if possible, try the Windows repair option in the computer it came out of.

ok, i know that the 20gig is a generic, and the 60gig is a seagate, the blue screen message says that i have "unountable_boot_volue"

as for the repair, i still cant figure this out how this works but it wont let me load the disk in start up, it goes right to the options of safe mode and normal startups, and it wont load. Not sure what the formats are on eiather hard drive.

Boot into the recovery console (you need the windows CD) and run chkdsk /p and fixboot. When that's done, take out the CD and reboot. That should fix the unmountable boot volume issue.