I am using win2k on ntfs file system. My two drives are unaccessable f: and g:when I boot my system. What can be the reason, after third boot all disk was unable to be accessed, when I tried to format my c: through win2k bootable cd. It was shown
c:
d:unformated disk
e:unformated disk
f:unformated disk
g:unformated disk
What is the reason?
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