John W
10-08-2003, 07:23 AM
I've taken on a task of trying to recover someones NT4 machine as a learning
experience (and its certainly been that so far!). The system has an Adaptec
2940 SCSI card with 4 external SCSI drives hanging on it.
The problem is that If I go to My Computer or Explorer, although the drives
are listed (well they are now that I've been into disk administrator ...
should I have had to do that?). All I get is a dialog box that says:
"The volume does not contain a recognised file system.
Please make sure that all the required system drivers are loaded and that
the volume is not corrupt."
The Disk Administrator suggests that the disks are formatted as it shows
used space and free space however, where the main (IDE) boot drive says its
NTFS, the errant SCSI drives say Unknown.
I've loaded the drivers that I've downloaded from the Adaptec site so there
should be no problem there.
I got the same problem when I did a clean NT4 installation so I suspect that
theres a driver that I'm not switching on or somesuch.
I've installed Partition Magic 5 and its telling me that the SCSI drives
type is "NT Stripe/Vol Set".
The SCSI drives are all about 8.7G but theres also a second NTFS formatted
IDE drive thats larger and it has no special driversto accomodate its size.
I have the option of handing the PC back without sorting it but that way
I'll never learn.
experience (and its certainly been that so far!). The system has an Adaptec
2940 SCSI card with 4 external SCSI drives hanging on it.
The problem is that If I go to My Computer or Explorer, although the drives
are listed (well they are now that I've been into disk administrator ...
should I have had to do that?). All I get is a dialog box that says:
"The volume does not contain a recognised file system.
Please make sure that all the required system drivers are loaded and that
the volume is not corrupt."
The Disk Administrator suggests that the disks are formatted as it shows
used space and free space however, where the main (IDE) boot drive says its
NTFS, the errant SCSI drives say Unknown.
I've loaded the drivers that I've downloaded from the Adaptec site so there
should be no problem there.
I got the same problem when I did a clean NT4 installation so I suspect that
theres a driver that I'm not switching on or somesuch.
I've installed Partition Magic 5 and its telling me that the SCSI drives
type is "NT Stripe/Vol Set".
The SCSI drives are all about 8.7G but theres also a second NTFS formatted
IDE drive thats larger and it has no special driversto accomodate its size.
I have the option of handing the PC back without sorting it but that way
I'll never learn.