2nd hard drive not recognized

[rayjay44]

i have been running a 80gb primary and 40gb secondary drives for one year
with no problem.yesterday i tried to open 2nd drive F i get message "disk
drive F is not formatted-do you want to format F now".i have used system
restore,updated and ran antivirus,adaware and spybot.Device manger says the
drive is there.CHKDSK utiity says it cannot find CHKDSK/F.thanks for any help

 

[DL]

And what does Disk Management say about this drive?
I would run the hd makers bootable checking utility on this drive
WD uses SeaTools

 

[John John - MVP]

Do not run Chkdsk if you need to salvage files on the disk! What you do
from here on might severely affect any data recovery efforts.

John

 

[Stefan Patric]

i have been running a 80gb primary and 40gb secondary drives for one
year with no problem.yesterday i tried to open 2nd drive F i get message
"disk drive F is not formatted-do you want to format F now".i have used
system restore,updated and ran antivirus,adaware and spybot.Device
manger says the drive is there.CHKDSK utiity says it cannot find
CHKDSK/F.thanks for any help

Is the drive correctly listed in BIOS? If it is, then the problem is
probably not hardware related, but software, i.e. Windows.

I would download a repair/restore/backup LiveCD first, and try to backup
your data before trying anything else.


Stef