Okay, so this evening I turned off my computer, opened up the case, unplugged my two storage hard drives onto which I'd backed everything up and re-installed windows (2000).
I've just finished installing all my baseline drivers & utilities and I'm raring to return to my normal computing - which, obviously, meant turning off my computer, reconnecting my storage hard drives, and firing it all back up to get at my music, my photos, my everything.
BUT
And this is quite a serious, serious but.
Windows won't recognise the two sata discs as they once were - all chock full of stuff - no, it tells me they're not formatted. And I want to cry.
I haven't a sata caddy to put them in to test them that way, and the only other computer in the house (this one) is so old it doesn't have sata inputs on the motherboard either.
What, if anything, can I do? How/why has windows failed to recognise what are essentially large storage volumes?
Could it have anything to do with the fact I've not installed SP4 yet (which frustratingly, sits on one of these unrecognised drives)?
O woe.
Woe.
