Windows 2000 Server - Drive Access problem

Hi All:

I currently have a Windows 2000 Server box (SP4) at work that's used for testing purposes.

C drive (Windows partition)
D drive (Data files)

Unfortunately, it's been experiencing a lot of freezing and lockups lately, which I can't seem to remedy. I decided to fix the issue by upgrading the C drive to Windows XP Professional and hope the stability would remedy itself with the new OS. Unfortunately, after upgrading the C drive, I can't access the D drive; probably due to Windows Security. Is there a way to access the D drive to extract the files without going back to my previous C drive image?

Thanks,
_schu

 

I can't access the D drive

What does that mean? Does the partition mount? Do you get an error when you try to open it from explorer? Did you patch up XP yet?

 

You can see it but can't open it or can't see it at all? Any error messages?

 

First off, Thanks for all the replies.

No, I haven't patched up XP yet, but I wouldn't think that would help in this particular case --but I'll try it anyway.

I'm having an issue logging into the OS itself, so that's why I posted this particular question. When I actually do login, I can see the drive mounted, but Explorer.exe just hangs when I click on it.

I'll try to get the exact error message and post it. Maybe I can fix the issue that way. It involves logging with the Directory Services Restore Mode. Ugh.

 

I really hate upgrading. It's always been trouble for me. And I can't even conceive of upgrading a system that's already unstable.

On top of that, is it a good idea to upgrade from Server 2000 to XP? Seems like there's a lot of things in Server that don't exist in XP (maybe I'm wrong. Anyone?).

As far as retrieving the files from D:, can you slave the drive into another PC?
Then start fresh.

 

Some upgrades seem pretty trouble-free. NT4 Server to 2K Server or Advanced Server has never given me a problem. However, I do absolutely agree about getting a clean and stable system before doing the upgrade.

Consumer OS and 9X to 2K or XP seems to do well. ME - yuck and no way will I ever upgrade one of those things again.

XP-Pro when compared to 2K Server (and no need to mention XP-home since it will fail if you try to upgrade a 2K system since that would be more of a downgrade) - the main thing you'd lose is the number of simultaneous users a Server OS will handle when compared to the 10-user maximum for the client versions (2K-pro and XP-pro). The added bells & whistles in XP-pro will also probably leave you with a slightly less stable OS although with SP2, XP does pretty well. So I suppose it all depends on what roll the box needs to play. I like a server OS for a server but not if folks are also gonna use it as a workstation.