I'm stumped!

I had a 40 gig drive as master, installed a 120 gig as
slave for data storage and ran great this way for a year.
Started having system crashes am told because I frequently
evaluate new software and then uninstall it. Began to get
pretty frequent so I backedup the master onto to slave and
happily reformatted the master. I cannot access anything
on the slave now, it has no assigned drive letter. The
device manager shows it is there and working properly and
has the same configuration as before (printed a system
resource report prior to reformat). I accessed admin
tools and disk manager shows it with all available space,
and unallocated. What help I've found advised to use
device manager to uninstall, then reboot, which resulted
in it being found as new hardware, set it up with drivers
again. Still cant access it. Western digital, the
manufacturer, has a support website that sent me to
Microsoft and they want BIG $ just to answer the phone.
Searched previous posts found help if only I had NFTS file
system but it was FAT32.

Any Idea's?

Did you have any kind of hard sidk drive utility or file management utility
or partition management utility?
(before reinstall OS)
If you had one of them(or all of them) maybe that has effected this.
did you apply service pack for windows2000?

also you can try data recovery tools or partition recovery tool.


http://www.bitmart.net/
http://www.tucows.com/harddrive95_default.html
http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm


if you want salvage your data from that drive
you can try cd boot linux - knoppix
http://www.knoppix.org/


"Michael" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm stumped!
>
> I had a 40 gig drive as master, installed a 120 gig as
> slave for data storage and ran great this way for a year.
> Started having system crashes am told because I frequently
> evaluate new software and then uninstall it. Began to get
> pretty frequent so I backedup the master onto to slave and
> happily reformatted the master. I cannot access anything
> on the slave now, it has no assigned drive letter. The
> device manager shows it is there and working properly and
> has the same configuration as before (printed a system
> resource report prior to reformat). I accessed admin
> tools and disk manager shows it with all available space,
> and unallocated. What help I've found advised to use
> device manager to uninstall, then reboot, which resulted
> in it being found as new hardware, set it up with drivers
> again. Still cant access it. Western digital, the
> manufacturer, has a support website that sent me to
> Microsoft and they want BIG $ just to answer the phone.
> Searched previous posts found help if only I had NFTS file
> system but it was FAT32.
>
> Any Idea's?
>
>

Boot from W98 floppy diskette and run scandisk. Do not correct any errors
for the first time - you'll figure.

>Thanks for the help!
actually cgssecurity.org's program "testdrive" analyzed
and then fixed my corrupted boot sector and MBR.
>Tough problem, but I now have access to my backup's and
am back up and running!