HD not accessible from my computer?

teddyedwardteddyedward
edited February 2005 in Hardware
Hi
My second hard drive has disappeared from my computer but is still visible in device manager which says all is well. any help would be appreciated as of course i haven't backed up for a while. could it be a virus or something more serious
thanks teddy.

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  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited February 2005
    You didnt mention the OS? If its win2k/XP try taking a peek in disk management and that will tell ya if the filesystem is fubar'd.

    You have to have a valid FS to show in my computer.

    Tex
  • teddyedwardteddyedward
    edited February 2005
    thanks tex,
    win xp home, disk manager has it as unallocated.
    sisoft sandra doesn't recognise it either.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited February 2005
    You don't care about anything but disk manager. Its all that matters. The filesystem in place is so fubar'd disk manager can not recognize it. Depending on whats on it and how important the data is it can probably be recovered through recovery software if it's really important.

    I can help you do this. Pm or email me or.....

    If what was on there isnt that important you can go into disk manager and just format the drive again and your in buisness if that drive is still sound mechanicaly.

    Question is WHY did this happen? And unless you OC or had power surges or ??? I am not sure WHY it hapened and we need to look at that.

    Do you know if this was ntfs or fat32 or ?? Did anything unusual preceed this event? Computer crash or not shutdown right or???

    Tex
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