Hard drive problem

[Don Madsen]

My system has a secondary hard drive, which I don't access very often and I
just discovered that its partitions are not visible in Windows explorer. It
is seen by the BIOS and Windows XP Disk Management sees it as an unformatted
drive. I have no idea how or when the problem started. While I have backups
for the main drive, there is not one for the problem drive. Is there any way
to recover the files on it?. Don

 

[NoStop]

My system has a secondary hard drive, which I don't access very often and
I just discovered that its partitions are not visible in Windows explorer.
It is seen by the BIOS and Windows XP Disk Management sees it as an
unformatted drive. I have no idea how or when the problem started. While I
have backups for the main drive, there is not one for the problem drive.
Is there any way to recover the files on it?. Don

I've had success fixing lost partitions on a drive using Knoppix. You can
download it from ...

http://www.knoppix.org/

 

[Bill Blanton]

My system has a secondary hard drive, which I don't access very often and I just discovered that its partitions are not visible in
Windows explorer. It is seen by the BIOS and Windows XP Disk Management sees it as an unformatted drive. I have no idea how or
when the problem started. While I have backups for the main drive, there is not one for the problem drive. Is there any way to
recover the files on it?. Don

"unformatted" or unallocated?

Assuming there is nothing physically wrong, these might be of use:

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/DiskPatch.htm

http://www.invircible.com/resq.php