Slave Hard Drive Confused?

[Guest]

2 hard drives make up my system. First is an 80 gig Seagate which contains
my OS XP and is the master drive C:\. The second is a 300 gig Seagate which
contains all of my collected data and is the slave drive F:\. When I attempt
to open my slave F:\ drive in "My Compter", I get this error:

F:\ is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong and what I should do? Thankyou for your
time and expertise in advance.

 

[db]

doesn't really make any sense

apparently what you are stating
is that you had access to the
drive at one time or another.

basically,

from the machine level:
are the harddrive jumpers
set to slave?

from the cmos/bios level:
is that drive registered
as the slave drive?

then from the desktop level:
can you open that location
from computer management
via admin tools?
2 hard drives make up my system. First is an 80 gig Seagate which contains
my OS XP and is the master drive C:\. The second is a 300 gig Seagate which
contains all of my collected data and is the slave drive F:\. When I attempt
to open my slave F:\ drive in "My Compter", I get this error:

F:\ is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong and what I should do? Thankyou for your
time and expertise in advance.

 

[Guest]

Yes, I did have access until this happened.

Yes, the harddrive jumpers are in their correct positions.

Yes, in Bios both harddrives a correctly recognized.

Yes, it does come up in Compter Management, however it is being recognized
as 100% Free and without any File System.

 

[db]

ok,
those eliminated lots of questions.

it sounds like the master boot record
crashed. my guess is that all the data
is still on the drive but without a mbr,
it appears to be blank.

if the drive is ntfs i think you'll need
one of those ntfs recovery programs.

i suggest to download of the trial version of
acronis disk director and install
it to your master drive.

open the trial and look for the option
to view or scan that slave drive via its
recovery or repair features.

if the ntfs crash theory is correct, the trial
will show you some of the files it found and
your recognize. This is a good sign.

however, it won't take any action to restore
the data or recovery that drive unless you buy a copy.

i think i encountered the same problem
a while back and i followed the same steps above.

I bought acronis and was well worth it since
it manages all of my partitions will nice.....

- db
Yes, I did have access until this happened.

Yes, the harddrive jumpers are in their correct positions.

Yes, in Bios both harddrives a correctly recognized.

Yes, it does come up in Compter Management, however it is being recognized
as 100% Free and without any File System.

 

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Yes, I did have access until this happened.

Yes, the harddrive jumpers are in their correct positions.

Yes, in Bios both harddrives a correctly recognized.

Yes, it does come up in Compter Management, however it is being recognized
as 100% Free and without any File System.

I don't know why a slave would need a MBR.

I have experience your symptoms three times.

1) Norton GoBack was installed. It has to be uninstalled for our normal
tools to work, like Disk Manage and Partition Magic.

2) Checkdsk / Scandisk fixed one with great difficulty.

3) I bought a pricey bootable CD Linix based recovery program for data
recovery. It recovered most of the data. The disk had 7GB of
unrecoverablele damage at the beginning of it (Where Windows XP lived).
Don't know why. After recovery, the disk formatted okay. (Data Rescue
PC from ProSoft)

I for one would be interested in what you eventually find.

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[db]

yeh, my mistake

i meant to refer
the master file table.....

Yes, I did have access until this happened.

Yes, the harddrive jumpers are in their correct positions.

Yes, in Bios both harddrives a correctly recognized.

Yes, it does come up in Compter Management, however it is being recognized
as 100% Free and without any File System.

I don't know why a slave would need a MBR.

I have experience your symptoms three times.

1) Norton GoBack was installed. It has to be uninstalled for our normal
tools to work, like Disk Manage and Partition Magic.

2) Checkdsk / Scandisk fixed one with great difficulty.

3) I bought a pricey bootable CD Linix based recovery program for data
recovery. It recovered most of the data. The disk had 7GB of
unrecoverablele damage at the beginning of it (Where Windows XP lived).
Don't know why. After recovery, the disk formatted okay. (Data Rescue
PC from ProSoft)

I for one would be interested in what you eventually find.

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