can't assign letter to partition

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I restarted my computer, and lost one of my partitions on a SATA drive. I can
still see it in disk management, but when I try to assign a drive letter or a
drive path to it, I get a error message:

The operation did not complete because the partition or volume is not
enabled. To enable this partition or volume, restart the computer.

I have restarted it, but it still shows the same problem. Also, when I look
at the disk properties from device manager, it does not show that
partition(volume) until i click the populate button. But if I click OK and go
back to the same tab, the volume is gone again. I do not want to reformat the
drive, as it has 200 GB worth of data that took years to collect.
 
hodayathink said:
I restarted my computer, and lost one of my partitions on a SATA drive. I can
still see it in disk management, but when I try to assign a drive letter or a
drive path to it, I get a error message:

The operation did not complete because the partition or volume is not
enabled. To enable this partition or volume, restart the computer.

I have restarted it, but it still shows the same problem. Also, when I look
at the disk properties from device manager, it does not show that
partition(volume) until i click the populate button. But if I click OK and go
back to the same tab, the volume is gone again. I do not want to reformat the
drive, as it has 200 GB worth of data that took years to collect.
Click to expand...

In view of the sheer amount of data you should hand this
disk to a recovery service. Anything you do will increase
the risk that the data is permanently lost.

It is possible that you may have to consider this unfortunate
event as a stark reminder that all important data must be
backed up to an independent medium at regular intervals,
eg. once a week. Disks are cheap, data is expensive or
even irreplaceable.
 
Okay, so the plot thickens.

I ran a program that I downloaded from the creators of the drive (Maxtor),
and it told me the drive was corrupted. So I took it in to where I bought it
to get it replaced, and to see if they could get the data. And when they
plugged it into their test computer, it worked fine. Perfectly fine. I still
got a replacement, since it didn't work on mine. And when I got back and
installed the hard drive on my computer, it won't show up anywhere but on the
RAID controller's device info. This is a brand new drive, so there shouldn't
be anything wrong with it. Has anyone ever encountered anything like this?
 
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