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?

"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.

"randwill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 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)