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Second Hard Drive lost?
Name: Nathan Date: July 13, 2003 at 19:41:58 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: AMD 1800/512
Comment:
I recently restarted my computer and upon reboot I seem to have lost my second hard drive. In the Device Manager it is working properly, and when I go through My Computer it tells me that the drive is not formatted. All links to files there tell me that the shortcut cannot be found. It is a Western Digital 100GB with 8MB cache. First time I've had any problems with it.
Name: stump Date: July 13, 2003 at 20:07:07 Pacific
Reply:
Yeah It shows it as being unformatted Don't what to tell you from here Sorry
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Response Number 5
Name: Nathan Date: July 13, 2003 at 20:29:17 Pacific
Reply:
So I decided to grab an old Win98se boot disk to restart to DOS, and much to my surprise I could easily browse the "unformatted" drive and all of my files were still there. There has to be a way to retrieve them, I will not give up hope!
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Response Number 6
Name: stump Date: July 13, 2003 at 21:15:15 Pacific
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Hey You might want to try a system file check in XP. Click on start/run and type in sfc /scannow. Note the space between c and /. You never know it might work. It is in my opinion the repair option for a working system
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Response Number 7
Name: Gigabyte Date: July 13, 2003 at 22:25:21 Pacific
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If there is enough room on your working drive, you could always make a folder on your working drive, go into DOS and do a "copy D:*.* C:\Folder", then format D: and start over...
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Response Number 8
Name: John Little Date: July 13, 2003 at 22:31:58 Pacific
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I am used to Partition Magic (Must-have in my opinion) but it's interesting in the screenshot that there is no file system recognized. You may simply need to allocate the space as Fat32. Of course, without PM - I don't know how you would do that without losing data.
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