Hi on my Win XP home system one of my hard drives has dissapeared from my
computer' it is still listed in device manager.
It is a device of 200 GB on a promise ide card - it apears as a sussi device
I have another 200 Gb drive also on this card and that is still working at
present.
I have tryed to run Chkdsk on it but get "Cannot open volume for direct
access."
It was working okay this morning untill I ran O&o defrag on it, the PC just
rebooted and the drive dissapeared.
Any one got any ideas what has gone wrong and what I can do to recover my
files.
TIA Dave

Dave, you could try swapping connections on the promise ide card. If
it's still listed in Device Manager you may have to
reinstall the promise drivers for it. Usually a yellow mark next to it
indicates driver install/reinstall.
"Dave51" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi on my Win XP home system one of my hard drives has dissapeared from my
> computer' it is still listed in device manager.
> It is a device of 200 GB on a promise ide card - it apears as a sussi
> device I have another 200 Gb drive also on this card and that is still
> working at present.
> I have tryed to run Chkdsk on it but get "Cannot open volume for direct
> access."
> It was working okay this morning untill I ran O&o defrag on it, the PC
> just rebooted and the drive dissapeared.
> Any one got any ideas what has gone wrong and what I can do to recover my
> files.
> TIA Dave
>