All of a sudden, my D: Drive isn't accessible from windows! None of my desktop shortcuts work and when I click on the D: drive icon, it tells me the drive isn't formatted and asks if I want to format it now. Partition magic shows it in its list with the correct hard drive space, but it says it's all used up and there's no free space available. I'm not familiar with this program, since my friend installed it for me, so I'm hoping someone might have a clue as to what is going on and how to get all my files back. Thanks for any help.

Your friend installed it for you, but did your friend run the program making any changes to your partitions? I assume your D drive is a second partition on your HDD. Perhaps you can supply a little more detail?

If any version other than PM Version9 was used, you will have problems. Only way to get away with using earlier versions of Partition Magic is to use it on any Win9x or ME platform. Lessons learnt the hard way are not easily forgotten.

Justme, you do mean PM 8.0, which is the newest? This sounds like the hard drive is corrupted. Open My Computer,right click the drive, choose properties,Tools, then error checking and run check disk onthis drive for errors. Is it possible you friend could slave this drive to another pc and try to read it if check disk does not help.?

My apologies RM I did mean the latest version. Lessons learnt the hard way are not easily forgotten.

Are you sure the partition is not hidden? Best resort - ask your friend. Rule #1: Good Computers don't go down. Rule #2: There is no such thing as a good computer.

Does Partition Magic show "unallocated space" in place of the D drive or does it show the entire drive as "C"?