2nd Hard Drive OFFLINE

[Guest]

Hi There,

I am NOT on vista, but on XP Pro. I don't know where else to go, so I
figured it wouldn't hurt to try here.

Ok, so I have WAY too many pics on my main harddrive, so I decided to move a
bunch of pic folders to my 2nd, smaller harddrive. So I did that yesturday,
then went back to the second harddrive to make sure they were in the drive
and then went and deleted the pics from my main harddrive. I then went and
removed some old programs I didn't need. Then I did a disk clean up.

Didn't know anything was wrong, untill later in the evening I couldn't find
the second drive at all. I then went into Control Panel, and then into
System, and then into System restore. There it says that my second drive is
offline.

I have done many searches and can't find any info on how to turn it back on.
I really need some help on this one, we just got back from a trip to Paris
and all the pics are on that drive as well as tons of my sons baby pics. I'm
heart broken.

Please help,
Sam

 

[Guest]

mom2twoboys,

Check the drive in Disk Management. Right click My Computer, select Manage
and then Disk Management. Make sure Disk Management has no problem with the
drive and that it has a drive letter. Assign a drive letter if you need to.
You have to play it by ear, since it's hard to tell exactly what to do from a
distance.

 

[Guest]

Thank you all for your suggestion. I have tried, and the disk
manager says that the drive is healthy and active. The drive is assigned the
letter "d".

When I try and open up the drive
drive from my computer, this is what comes up "The disk in drive D is not
formatted. Do you
want to format it now? yes or no." I keep clicking no, cause the last thing I
want to do is format that drive.

Any ideas? Thanks again for your time,
Sam

 

[Guest]

mom2twoboys,

In Disk Management there are other functions you can perform. For example,
check the disk for errors. You can also do this in My Computer under the
Tools tab. In BIOS, if you have SMART and it's not enabled, enable it to try
to determine whether the drive is going bad. Some BIOSes and hard drives
have built-in SMART functions that provide information on the status of the
hard drive. It's hard to say what is wrong. Maybe your drive has gone bad.
Try using google to see what other people have done with this problem. In
Device Manager, under the Properties of the drive, you can uninstall it to
see whether Windows fixes the problem when it reboots. That's about all I
have.