Drive contents gone?!

paroxymparoxym Toronto, Canada
edited April 2004 in Hardware
Well it goes like this...
Being the generous person I am I had decided to contribute to my girlfriends cause and give her my 40 GB Maxtor.
I removed my drive from the my computer leaving my 80 GB alone on my primary IDE channel. Well, upon booting back up my drive now shows as a 31.5 GB drive that is unformatted. I looked at the drive in 'Computer Management>Disk Mangement" and it shows as a RAW file format. I tried a different IDE cable and jumpered the drive as master instead of CS with the same results.:mean:
I have no clue whats going on here. Someone shed some light on this situation please!

Abit NF7-s
XP2500-M
2 x Maxtor DM9 120GB Sata RAID 0
1 x Maxtor DM 80GB @ 31.5 GB RAW :zombie:
Radeonb 9800 Pro

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Sounds maybe like your MBR or partition table was on the 80gb drive.... Just speculating... Does the bios recognize the 80gb as an 80gb? Perhaps running Windows XP recovery console might shed some light?
  • paroxymparoxym Toronto, Canada
    edited April 2004
    My 80 GB is strictly a storage drive as the 2 120s serve as my system drive. The bios recognizes the drive as an 80 GB Maxtor (dont recall the model right off the top of my head) But yea, I guess I could give the recovery console a try, although I dont believe I have ever used it before so... :zombie:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    oh oh oh... I thought the 80gb was your system drive... I don't think recovery console will help...

    Sounds like the "32gb clip" thing -- I know IBM drives had a 32gb clip option so that the computer would recognize the drive (this was for older computers).. I dunno.. .That's a weird one. Can you run chkdsk on it?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    try running powermax and seeing what it says.
  • paroxymparoxym Toronto, Canada
    edited April 2004
    Shwaip,
    well, not good news... Powermax says nothing. It doesnt detect the drive at all whatsoever. Strange that the bios detects the drive as well as windows but not the utility. Any other suggestions? I'm gettin desperate here. :(
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    If you put it back on the secondary, does it work?
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited April 2004
    I had a similar problem and profdip solved it. Have a look at this thread.
    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11940
    Good luck with it.
  • paroxymparoxym Toronto, Canada
    edited April 2004
    Bothered and Prodflp,

    Thanks a million guys. TestDisk did the trick! :thumbsup:
    I analysed the drive and TestDisk was able to snoop out my partition information. I simply re-wrote the partition information to the drive, rebooted and bam, there was my 80 Gig back in all her glory, file system completely in tact.
    *High fives* :celebrate
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited April 2004
    Yay, Prof does it again. Wonderful. :thumbsup:
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