Guest David Posted December 18, 2007 Posted December 18, 2007 Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT. TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!! David
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted December 18, 2007 Posted December 18, 2007 Re: Lost slave drive "David" <davids58@gmail.com> wrote in message news:42b82650-5451-4672-ae5a-605489767224@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the > slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When > investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy > (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT. > > TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!! > > David It's nice to know that the C: drive is FAT but you did not report what file system the missing disk uses. Did you assign a drive letter to the partition on the missing disk?
Guest philo Posted December 18, 2007 Posted December 18, 2007 Re: Lost slave drive "David" <davids58@gmail.com> wrote in message news:42b82650-5451-4672-ae5a-605489767224@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the > slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When > investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy > (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT. > > TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!! > > David If the drive has no letter assigned to it... see if you can do so from disk management
Guest David Posted December 19, 2007 Posted December 19, 2007 Re: Lost slave drive On Dec 17, 11:22 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: > "David" <david...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:42b82650-5451-4672-ae5a-605489767224@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > > > Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the > > slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When > > investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy > > (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT. > > > TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!! > > > David > > It's nice to know that the C: drive is FAT but you did not > report what file system the missing disk uses. Did you assign > a drive letter to the partition on the missing disk? The slave is F: and I believe it was FAT also.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted December 19, 2007 Posted December 19, 2007 Re: Lost slave drive "David" <davids58@gmail.com> wrote in message news:2d8c32ab-24b1-4f68-b588-ab0dae3a6f85@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > On Dec 17, 11:22 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: >> "David" <david...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> >> news:42b82650-5451-4672-ae5a-605489767224@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >> >> > Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the >> > slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When >> > investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy >> > (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT. >> >> > TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!! >> >> > David >> >> It's nice to know that the C: drive is FAT but you did not >> report what file system the missing disk uses. Did you assign >> a drive letter to the partition on the missing disk? > > The slave is F: and I believe it was FAT also. The Disk Manager shows you what file system a given partition has. If you can see no file system then it may be lost. I would use a recovery program, e.g. Acronis Recovery Expert.
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