OS: Windows XP Home, Computer: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi
My computer contained drives C & D both 50 GB memory but after reboot My
Computer folder shows just C Drive which is now 90 GB.
How can I get my D Drive back?

elthoroon wrote:
> OS: Windows XP Home, Computer: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi
> My computer contained drives C & D both 50 GB memory but after reboot My
> Computer folder shows just C Drive which is now 90 GB.
> How can I get my D Drive back?

Download a trial version of bootitng from www.terabyteunlimited.com.
After making a bootable media (floppy or cd), boot with that and hit
cancel when asked to install. Under partition tab, see what that shows.
Dave Cohen

Did you use a disk partition util to delete or extend the C: partition?

"elthoroon" wrote:

> OS: Windows XP Home, Computer: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi
> My computer contained drives C & D both 50 GB memory but after reboot My
> Computer folder shows just C Drive which is now 90 GB.
> How can I get my D Drive back?

Well, I am afraid that I dont know what are you talking about...I am not a
professional user!!! Looks like I have to visit a computer softeare service.

"SteveL" wrote:

> Did you use a disk partition util to delete or extend the C: partition?
>
> "elthoroon" wrote:
>
> > OS: Windows XP Home, Computer: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi
> > My computer contained drives C & D both 50 GB memory but after reboot My
> > Computer folder shows just C Drive which is now 90 GB.
> > How can I get my D Drive back?

>> "elthoroon" wrote:
>>
>> > OS: Windows XP Home, Computer: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi
>> > My computer contained drives C & D both 50 GB memory but after reboot
>> > My
>> > Computer folder shows just C Drive which is now 90 GB.
>> > How can I get my D Drive back?>


> "SteveL" wrote:
>
>> Did you use a disk partition util to delete or extend the C: partition?


"elthoroon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F14B6D6A-D54A-4153-8C07-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Well, I am afraid that I dont know what are you talking about...I am not a
> professional user!!! Looks like I have to visit a computer softeare
> service.


elthoroon:
Well, if you can, hold off just for a moment before taking your computer to
a service shop, OK?

Do this:

Click on Start, then right-click on My Computer, then click on Manage, then
click on Disk Management that's listed in the left column of that Computer
Management screen that opens.

Now your hard drive will be shown in the right-side of that screen. I think
your computer is a notebook, right? If it is, it probably just has a single
hard drive and I guess from your description it was divided into two
partitions - your C: drive and your D: drive. Had you or someone previously
divided it that way or did it come from the factory that way?

And I guess you had all kinds of data on the D: drive that you want and/or
need, right?

Anyway, getting back to Disk Management...

Can you report what you see there in terms of information as to how your
hard drive is divided, if it's divided at all?

Does it just show just a single C: drive? No indication there's a D: drive?

And if it does show only a single C: drive, does it indicate its capacity of
about 74 or 75 GB?

Assuming the D: drive is not shown, do you have any clue as to what happened
to it? Did you or someone "work" on your computer before this happened?
Anna

You are right. My computer is a notebook and it just has a single 100 GB hard
drive which was divided into two partitions - C: drive and D: drive. It was
that way from the factory. I had all kinds of data on the D: drive...

In the Disk Managment I can see just DISK 0 which is devided into:
PQSERVICE 2.25 GB FAT32 and ACER (C 90.91 GB FAT 32

There is no indication of a D: drive

I dont have any clue what happend. As I sad before, I had reboot my system
from recovery CD. Not the first time. But it is the first time that my D
drive is lost.
Maybe it has something to do with Norton SystemWorks which I installed just
days before reboot?!


"Anna" wrote:

> >> "elthoroon" wrote:
> >>
> >> > OS: Windows XP Home, Computer: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi
> >> > My computer contained drives C & D both 50 GB memory but after reboot
> >> > My
> >> > Computer folder shows just C Drive which is now 90 GB.
> >> > How can I get my D Drive back?>
>
>
> > "SteveL" wrote:
> >
> >> Did you use a disk partition util to delete or extend the C: partition?
>
>
> "elthoroon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:F14B6D6A-D54A-4153-8C07-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Well, I am afraid that I dont know what are you talking about...I am not a
> > professional user!!! Looks like I have to visit a computer softeare
> > service.
>
>
> elthoroon:
> Well, if you can, hold off just for a moment before taking your computer to
> a service shop, OK?
>
> Do this:
>
> Click on Start, then right-click on My Computer, then click on Manage, then
> click on Disk Management that's listed in the left column of that Computer
> Management screen that opens.
>
> Now your hard drive will be shown in the right-side of that screen. I think
> your computer is a notebook, right? If it is, it probably just has a single
> hard drive and I guess from your description it was divided into two
> partitions - your C: drive and your D: drive. Had you or someone previously
> divided it that way or did it come from the factory that way?
>
> And I guess you had all kinds of data on the D: drive that you want and/or
> need, right?
>
> Anyway, getting back to Disk Management...
>
> Can you report what you see there in terms of information as to how your
> hard drive is divided, if it's divided at all?
>
> Does it just show just a single C: drive? No indication there's a D: drive?
>
> And if it does show only a single C: drive, does it indicate its capacity of
> about 74 or 75 GB?
>
> Assuming the D: drive is not shown, do you have any clue as to what happened
> to it? Did you or someone "work" on your computer before this happened?
> Anna
>
>
>

elthoroon wrote:

> You are right. My computer is a notebook and it just has a single 100
> GB hard drive which was divided into two partitions - C: drive and D:
> drive. It was that way from the factory. I had all kinds of data on
> the D: drive...
>
> In the Disk Managment I can see just DISK 0 which is devided into:
> PQSERVICE 2.25 GB FAT32 and ACER (C 90.91 GB FAT 32
>
> There is no indication of a D: drive
>
> I dont have any clue what happend. As I sad before, I had reboot my
> system from recovery CD.


To "reboot" is to restart your computer. Most of us do that at least once a
day.

What you apparently did was to reinstall Windows, not "reboot" it.


> Not the first time. But it is the first time
> that my D drive is lost.
> Maybe it has something to do with Norton SystemWorks which I
> installed just days before reboot?!


No, it has nothing to do with NSW. It has to do with what you told it to do
when you reinstalled Windows. You used to have your drive divided into two
partitions, but when you reinstalled, you told it to make only one
partition.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

>> >> "elthoroon" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > OS: Windows XP Home, Computer: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi
>> >> > My computer contained drives C & D both 50 GB memory but after
>> >> > reboot
>> >> > My
>> >> > Computer folder shows just C Drive which is now 90 GB.
>> >> > How can I get my D Drive back?>


>> > "SteveL" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Did you use a disk partition util to delete or extend the C:
>> >> partition?


>> "elthoroon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:F14B6D6A-D54A-4153-8C07-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Well, I am afraid that I dont know what are you talking about...I am
>> > not a
>> > professional user!!! Looks like I have to visit a computer softeare
>> > service.


> "Anna" wrote:
>> elthoroon:
>> Well, if you can, hold off just for a moment before taking your computer
>> to
>> a service shop, OK?
>>
>> Do this:
>>
>> Click on Start, then right-click on My Computer, then click on Manage,
>> then
>> click on Disk Management that's listed in the left column of that
>> Computer
>> Management screen that opens.
>>
>> Now your hard drive will be shown in the right-side of that screen. I
>> think
>> your computer is a notebook, right? If it is, it probably just has a
>> single
>> hard drive and I guess from your description it was divided into two
>> partitions - your C: drive and your D: drive. Had you or someone
>> previously
>> divided it that way or did it come from the factory that way?
>>
>> And I guess you had all kinds of data on the D: drive that you want
>> and/or
>> need, right?
>>
>> Anyway, getting back to Disk Management...
>>
>> Can you report what you see there in terms of information as to how your
>> hard drive is divided, if it's divided at all?
>>
>> Does it just show just a single C: drive? No indication there's a D:
>> drive?
>>
>> And if it does show only a single C: drive, does it indicate its capacity
>> of
>> about 74 or 75 GB?
>>
>> Assuming the D: drive is not shown, do you have any clue as to what
>> happened
>> to it? Did you or someone "work" on your computer before this happened?
>> Anna


"elthoroon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E2068D4E-B0FA-49DA-A776-(E-Mail Removed)...
> You are right. My computer is a notebook and it just has a single 100 GB
> hard
> drive which was divided into two partitions - C: drive and D: drive. It
> was
> that way from the factory. I had all kinds of data on the D: drive...
>
> In the Disk Managment I can see just DISK 0 which is devided into:
> PQSERVICE 2.25 GB FAT32 and ACER (C 90.91 GB FAT 32
>
> There is no indication of a D: drive
>
> I dont have any clue what happend. As I sad before, I had reboot my system
> from recovery CD. Not the first time. But it is the first time that my D
> drive is lost.
> Maybe it has something to do with Norton SystemWorks which I installed
> just
> days before reboot?!


elthoroon:
It's hard, if not impossible, to say what exactly happened to the D: drive.
Perhaps something went awry when you used the recovery CD even though there
had been no previous problem.

I guess you're absolutely sure the missing data is not on your C: drive,
right? There's really not much you can do about recovering that data at this
point. There are software data recovery programs available but I really
don't think they'll be of any use in this situation. You could do a Google
search on "data recovery programs" and you'll be pointed to many sources for
this type of program. Many of these sources have trial or demo versions
available which might give you a clue as to whether the data (at least that
portion of the data of interest to you) is recoverable.

Then there are professional data recovery services but this is a very
expensive proposition.

It's a "shot in the dark", but it may be worth a call to Acer just to see if
there's any help from that source.

I take it you hadn't backed up your data on a systematic basis. I won't give
you any lectures on the need to do so; I think you now understand the
importance of doing so.
Anna

Well, the truth is that I dont care about my lost data on D Drive.
I just want to make sure that my hard disk is devided again into partitions
and I dont know how to do that?

"Anna" wrote:

> >> >> "elthoroon" wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > OS: Windows XP Home, Computer: Acer Aspire 5024WLMi
> >> >> > My computer contained drives C & D both 50 GB memory but after
> >> >> > reboot
> >> >> > My
> >> >> > Computer folder shows just C Drive which is now 90 GB.
> >> >> > How can I get my D Drive back?>
>
>
> >> > "SteveL" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Did you use a disk partition util to delete or extend the C:
> >> >> partition?
>
>
> >> "elthoroon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:F14B6D6A-D54A-4153-8C07-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> > Well, I am afraid that I dont know what are you talking about...I am
> >> > not a
> >> > professional user!!! Looks like I have to visit a computer softeare
> >> > service.
>
>
> > "Anna" wrote:
> >> elthoroon:
> >> Well, if you can, hold off just for a moment before taking your computer
> >> to
> >> a service shop, OK?
> >>
> >> Do this:
> >>
> >> Click on Start, then right-click on My Computer, then click on Manage,
> >> then
> >> click on Disk Management that's listed in the left column of that
> >> Computer
> >> Management screen that opens.
> >>
> >> Now your hard drive will be shown in the right-side of that screen. I
> >> think
> >> your computer is a notebook, right? If it is, it probably just has a
> >> single
> >> hard drive and I guess from your description it was divided into two
> >> partitions - your C: drive and your D: drive. Had you or someone
> >> previously
> >> divided it that way or did it come from the factory that way?
> >>
> >> And I guess you had all kinds of data on the D: drive that you want
> >> and/or
> >> need, right?
> >>
> >> Anyway, getting back to Disk Management...
> >>
> >> Can you report what you see there in terms of information as to how your
> >> hard drive is divided, if it's divided at all?
> >>
> >> Does it just show just a single C: drive? No indication there's a D:
> >> drive?
> >>
> >> And if it does show only a single C: drive, does it indicate its capacity
> >> of
> >> about 74 or 75 GB?
> >>
> >> Assuming the D: drive is not shown, do you have any clue as to what
> >> happened
> >> to it? Did you or someone "work" on your computer before this happened?
> >> Anna
>
>
> "elthoroon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:E2068D4E-B0FA-49DA-A776-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > You are right. My computer is a notebook and it just has a single 100 GB
> > hard
> > drive which was divided into two partitions - C: drive and D: drive. It
> > was
> > that way from the factory. I had all kinds of data on the D: drive...
> >
> > In the Disk Managment I can see just DISK 0 which is devided into:
> > PQSERVICE 2.25 GB FAT32 and ACER (C 90.91 GB FAT 32
> >
> > There is no indication of a D: drive
> >
> > I dont have any clue what happend. As I sad before, I had reboot my system
> > from recovery CD. Not the first time. But it is the first time that my D
> > drive is lost.
> > Maybe it has something to do with Norton SystemWorks which I installed
> > just
> > days before reboot?!
>
>
> elthoroon:
> It's hard, if not impossible, to say what exactly happened to the D: drive.
> Perhaps something went awry when you used the recovery CD even though there
> had been no previous problem.
>
> I guess you're absolutely sure the missing data is not on your C: drive,
> right? There's really not much you can do about recovering that data at this
> point. There are software data recovery programs available but I really
> don't think they'll be of any use in this situation. You could do a Google
> search on "data recovery programs" and you'll be pointed to many sources for
> this type of program. Many of these sources have trial or demo versions
> available which might give you a clue as to whether the data (at least that
> portion of the data of interest to you) is recoverable.
>
> Then there are professional data recovery services but this is a very
> expensive proposition.
>
> It's a "shot in the dark", but it may be worth a call to Acer just to see if
> there's any help from that source.
>
> I take it you hadn't backed up your data on a systematic basis. I won't give
> you any lectures on the need to do so; I think you now understand the
> importance of doing so.
> Anna
>
>
>

Then use BootItNG. It is free and very easy to use. Dave Cohen gave you the link.
Here is the link again :
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

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> I want to make sure that my hard disk is devided again into
> partitions and I dont know how to do that?