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After defrag - Disc is not formatted error.

 
 
randwill
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      15th Mar 2007
I just defragged my secondary hard drive (D. Now when I try to access it
I get the message: Disk is not formatted. The disk in drive D is not
formatted. Do you want to format now?

I used the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter utility to do this. The utility now
does not see the disc at all. I have rebotted with no change.

What do I need to do to get access to the stuff on that disc?


 
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Uncle Grumpy
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      15th Mar 2007
"randwill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I used the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter utility to do this.


It has such a utility???

News to me, bucko.
 
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      15th Mar 2007

"randwill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:8s1Kh.261507$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I just defragged my secondary hard drive (D. Now when I try to access

it
> I get the message: Disk is not formatted. The disk in drive D is not
> formatted. Do you want to format now?
>
> I used the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter utility to do this. The utility

now
> does not see the disc at all. I have rebotted with no change.
>
> What do I need to do to get access to the stuff on that disc?


You could try one of the many partition recovery tools that
are available from various places - see below. I doubt that
they will help you very much: If the defragging procss went
haywire then your file system is likely to be totally thrashed.
I defrag my partitions only rarely: The visible benefits are
marginal at best but the risks are very real.
http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz (has NTFS undelete tools too)
http://www.runtime.org/ (GetDataBack - has a trial version)
http://www.softwarepatch.com/softwar...cdownload.html
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
www.acronis.com (RecoveryExpert)


 
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