HELP ! Lost a logical drive in XP Pro !!
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I was running a defrag in XP Pro yesterday evening on a 56gig volume (E: - 2nd hard disk).
At the same time I was installing the Creative 5.1 drivers for my sound card. Once this was done it came up and said that i need to reboot to enable the drivers. I clicked "Finish" expecting it to say reboot now or later, and it started to close programs down and reboot then.
When XP came back up, i tried to look at my D: drive (2nd partition on boot (1st) disk) and it now says "drive is not formatted, do you wish to format it".
What has happened ? Has some sort of disk header been corrupted ? The data must still be there, theres about 7 gig of it and its all me software install directories
Are thre any utilities that i might be able to use to get the volume back and readable without reformatting the partition and losing everything ?
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Dave
At the same time I was installing the Creative 5.1 drivers for my sound card. Once this was done it came up and said that i need to reboot to enable the drivers. I clicked "Finish" expecting it to say reboot now or later, and it started to close programs down and reboot then.
When XP came back up, i tried to look at my D: drive (2nd partition on boot (1st) disk) and it now says "drive is not formatted, do you wish to format it".
What has happened ? Has some sort of disk header been corrupted ? The data must still be there, theres about 7 gig of it and its all me software install directories
Are thre any utilities that i might be able to use to get the volume back and readable without reformatting the partition and losing everything ?
Thanks
Dave
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Could it be that XP was updating the volume/header (that was NTFS at a previous Win2kPro install) to the latest version of NTFS and thats where it was screwed ?
The data must still be on the disk so surely there is a way for me to get it back.
Dave
[Edited by druddle - 6/19/2002 10:07:14 AM]
The data must still be on the disk so surely there is a way for me to get it back.
Dave
[Edited by druddle - 6/19/2002 10:07:14 AM]
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Right I have had a think about this and I think the best thing is going to be to boot off cd and select the repair option and start the Recovery Console. Run something like a fixboot d: and repair the partition header.
Will that work ?
Will that work ?
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Try this..
http://www.ontrack.co.uk/easyrecovery/
We had a customer's PC partition table wiped by a virus. FDisk reported nothing. Easy Recovery did the job - got most of his documents back
There's a free trial download that will asses what it can recover before you have to shell out any cash.
http://www.ontrack.co.uk/easyrecovery/
We had a customer's PC partition table wiped by a virus. FDisk reported nothing. Easy Recovery did the job - got most of his documents back
There's a free trial download that will asses what it can recover before you have to shell out any cash.
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