2nd HD not recognized

[jj]

I need some direction.
Last week for no apperrant reason my 2nd HD wasen't beeing recogized. I
would like terribly to be able to access some of my data (family pictures
etc.). I tried "Easy Recovery" and was told that my partion was missing. I
was ablre to see some files lists but on recovery most were un accessable. I
am running windows 2000 pro, and have 1mg of RAM, 1st HD 80g, 2nd 250g
(unaccessable).
My question is is it possible to recover my data. I have not done anything
else to the drive in hopes to recover my data.

John

 

[da_test]

I need some direction.
Last week for no apperrant reason my 2nd HD wasen't beeing recogized. I
would like terribly to be able to access some of my data (family pictures
etc.). I tried "Easy Recovery" and was told that my partion was missing. I
was ablre to see some files lists but on recovery most were un accessable. I
am running windows 2000 pro, and have 1mg of RAM, 1st HD 80g, 2nd 250g
(unaccessable).
My question is is it possible to recover my data. I have not done anything
else to the drive in hopes to recover my data.

John

Is it being recognized by the BIOS at least?
If not, it may not be spinning or other electrical problem.

Dave

 

[jj]

I need some direction.

Last week for no apperrant reason my 2nd HD wasen't beeing recogized. I
would like terribly to be able to access some of my data (family pictures
etc.). I tried "Easy Recovery" and was told that my partion was missing. I
was ablre to see some files lists but on recovery most were un accessable. I
am running windows 2000 pro, and have 1mg of RAM, 1st HD 80g, 2nd 250g
(unaccessable).
My question is is it possible to recover my data. I have not done anything
else to the drive in hopes to recover my data.

John

Is it being recognized by the BIOS at least?
If not, it may not be spinning or other electrical problem.

Dave

Yes it is being recognized by the BIOS.

John

 

[wemaole]

You can try other data recovery software

 

[DL]

You could go to the hd manu.site and download the hd checking utility - they
are sometimes able to reserect a failing hd, sufficiently for you to
retrieve data.
Are you able to access the hd, using safe mode/command prompt?

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, John.

What does Disk Management tell you about that HD? (Start | Run, enter:
diskmgmt.msc)

That second HD DID work for a while, right? And then suddenly one morning
"wasn't there"?

What interface do your HDs - especially that second HD - use? Typical IDE
(ATA)? SCSI? SATA? USB?

RC

 

[jj]

You could go to the hd manu.site and download the hd checking utility -
they

are sometimes able to reserect a failing hd, sufficiently for you to
retrieve data.
Are you able to access the hd, using safe mode/command prompt?

The results from Disk Manager is:
Volume = (D
Layout = Partition
Type = Basic
File System = _________ (is blank)
Status = Healthy (Active)
Capacity = 232.88 GB
Free Space = 232.88 GB
%free = 100%
Fault Tolerance = no
Overhead = 0%

Haven't tried in safe mode yet but after this message I will.

Thanks
John

 

[Peter]

You could go to the hd manu.site and download the hd checking utility -

they
The results from Disk Manager is:
Volume = (D
Layout = Partition
Type = Basic
File System = _________ (is blank)
Status = Healthy (Active)
Capacity = 232.88 GB
Free Space = 232.88 GB
%free = 100%
Fault Tolerance = no
Overhead = 0%

Bitten by the 137GB bug?
Does your W2K Pro system have SP3 or later and
registry EnableBigLBA implemented?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

 

[jj]

The results from Disk Manager is:

Bitten by the 137GB bug?
Does your W2K Pro system have SP3 or later and
registry EnableBigLBA implemented?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

Yes, my system has SP3 installed and I check my registry with, regedit and
regedt32, and both mave the proper settings.

John