HDD missing, important data please help

[Guest]

Hi,

Full info of my problem.

4 HDD's / 2 CD drives.

Primary master (boot)
Primary slave (160 gig store)
Secondary master (cd1)
Secondary slave (cd2)
2 HDD's on Promise card

Windows XP started to go funky on me.....so i decided to do a repair
operation with the XP disc. Allowed the process to complete.....booted and
then installed SP1a. I hadnt looked at my drives at this stage......

When i looked at my drives, all were there except this 160 gig store drive.
When i look in my disk management, i see 153 gig of unallocated space ?

This drive was working perfrctly just before i applied the repair operation.

Believe it or not, i was preparing to do a full backup onto the 2 drives on
the promise card after the repair.

I did disconnect all drives apart from c to do the repair. All reconnected
ok...all seen bar my important 160.

Really need help. Sorrry to hark on, you have all been good help.

Andrew

 

[Eric]

I would try the storage drive on another IDE channel on
its own with the boot drive.

Disconnect all of the other drives, including the ones on
the PCI card. and only enable the channels that have
drives on them in the BIOS to prevent Windows looking for
non-existent drives.

Those are a lot of drives. Are you sure that your power
supply unit is adequately powered to run them all?

Eric,
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