HELP!!! Hardisk is not recongized !!!

[Guest]

Hi !!

I had reinstalled my winxp professional to the pc, which I had two hardisks.
1. 80GB 2. 300GB
My original os was on the 80GB one, so I format it and reinstalled the xp
onto it.
My 300GB hardisk was used to save all my personal files, and was partitioned
into 4 partitions.
they are D,E,F,G drives.

The horrible thing happens when I had reinstalled the xp again and restart
the pc.
It cannot recongized the 300GB hardisk, it shows that it is a RAW hardisk
and has only 128GB
of size!!!!! and it gives the drive only one drive letter D.
I forgot the file system i formated for the 300GB hardisk months ago, but it
must not be fat32.

I am going to die !!!!! cause all my DC photos, works, ....... are inside
that hardisk!!!!!
any methods ???
pls pls pls help me !!!!

best regards
herman

 

[Guest]

Herman,

Someone will probably come up with a better solution, but have you thought
of taking the 300gig out and piggyback it a friends machine. If the drive is
then recognised I suggest you take some blank cd's with you and backup the
information from that drive, re format and start again.
Also you should NEVER rely on a HDD as your total storage area for your
files, this is why we have blank cd's and DVD's so this doesn't happen.

 

[Guest]

hey Bob,

thanks for your suggestion first,
i will try it after 6 hours,
but you know i am too nervious now,
so wanna got a fast solution from you guys.
And thanks for reminding me to backup those files!
And within this 6 hours, i hope i can get more methods to fix my hardisk!

herman

 

[Malke]

hey Bob,

thanks for your suggestion first,
i will try it after 6 hours,
but you know i am too nervious now,
so wanna got a fast solution from you guys.
And thanks for reminding me to backup those files!
And within this 6 hours, i hope i can get more methods to fix my
hardisk!

herman

It sounds like you reinstalled XP Pro and perhaps it was a copy without
service packs. Therefore it doesn't recognize the full size of the
large hard drive.

1. Retrieve the data by either slaving the hard drive in a working XP
box (with an XP that is SP1 or SP2) as Bob suggested. Or, if you don't
have access to that, you can retrieve the data with Knoppix, a Linux
distro that runs from CD.

2. Remove the large data drive from your original computer. Reboot so
that Windows thinks it is alone. Update to Service Pack 2. Now try
connecting your drive and see if all of it is seen.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Malke,

thanks again for U ~!~
I hope I can solve this problem asap!
I am trying the suggestion from all of U!


cheers
herman

 

[Guest]

I had upgrade the XP into SP2,
my PC recongized all the capacity of the 300GB hardisk,
BUT! it stills shows wrong information about the drive.
In computer management is shows there are only 2 partition in
this hard drive. One is 128GB and the other one is 151.46GB.

I am afraid that the partitions I made was Dynamic disk, but i am really
not sure, I just click click and click when i made the partitions by default
in XP.
I think I have to make sure what is the partitions i made, Basic or Dynamic?

Now, information shows the 128GB partition has a drive letter D.
And the other partition shows unlocated !
What is the problem ????

regards
herman

 

[Malke]

I had upgrade the XP into SP2,
my PC recongized all the capacity of the 300GB hardisk,
BUT! it stills shows wrong information about the drive.
In computer management is shows there are only 2 partition in
this hard drive. One is 128GB and the other one is 151.46GB.

I am afraid that the partitions I made was Dynamic disk, but i am
really not sure, I just click click and click when i made the
partitions by default in XP.
I think I have to make sure what is the partitions i made, Basic or
Dynamic?

Now, information shows the 128GB partition has a drive letter D.
And the other partition shows unlocated !
What is the problem ????

The problem is that you "click click and click" blindly instead of
knowing what you are doing. Get the data off the drive, either with
your new XP install or with Knoppix, or have a knowledgeable friend or
professional get the data off for you.

Then use Disk Management (Administrative Tools>Computer Management) to
set the partitions on the slave drive the way you want and format the
drive (removing everything) and start fresh.

Malke

 

[Pat Coghlan]

Hi !!

I had reinstalled my winxp professional to the pc, which I had two hardisks.
1. 80GB 2. 300GB
My original os was on the 80GB one, so I format it and reinstalled the xp
onto it.
My 300GB hardisk was used to save all my personal files, and was partitioned
into 4 partitions.
they are D,E,F,G drives.

The horrible thing happens when I had reinstalled the xp again and restart
the pc.
It cannot recongized the 300GB hardisk, it shows that it is a RAW hardisk
and has only 128GB
of size!!!!! and it gives the drive only one drive letter D.
I forgot the file system i formated for the 300GB hardisk months ago, but it
must not be fat32.

This should not matter. WinXP should be able to recognize the format,
#partitions etc.

What do you see if you:

- click My Computer-Manage, then click Disk Management?

This should show you all the info re: each drive, partition sizes,
whether a partition is compressed etc.

I presume you didn't encrypt any of the folders in any partition (hope
not), but this wouldn't affect the partition configuration.

Just for you information, information about physical drive partitions
are stored in the master boot record (MBR) in a hidden location on the
drive. As long as this has not been corrupted, you should be able to
recover all the information on the drive.

I am going to die !!!!! cause all my DC photos, works, ....... are inside
that hardisk!!!!!
any methods ???
pls pls pls help me !!!!

best regards
herman

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[Guest]

The above suggestions are done,
However, the disk is still cannot get back what is was.....
I had some more information for U all which I mentioned wrongly.

Which the 300GB hardisk was divided into 5 drives not 4.
So that it should be different right ? I had look at the help pages,
the disk should including extend partition right ?

At the mean time i am trying EasyRecovery to saving the files out!
I saw it could found the files, but they are in special names,
it would mess me up as some of them might not have correct extensions.

I search through the newsgroup, could anyone tell me that is that I can
try > Recovery Console or modify the MBR ?

By the way, the hardisk is surely not physically damaged as checked.

thanks a lot
herman

 

[Pat Coghlan]

The above suggestions are done,
However, the disk is still cannot get back what is was.....
I had some more information for U all which I mentioned wrongly.

Which the 300GB hardisk was divided into 5 drives not 4.
So that it should be different right ? I had look at the help pages,
the disk should including extend partition right ?

I think you can have 3 primary + 1 extended (not quite sure) partition.
The extended partition can contain multiple logical drives (only one
logical drive in a primary partition). All of this is encoded in the MBR.

Windows like to be in the boot partition. The NTLDR program loads the OS.

At the mean time i am trying EasyRecovery to saving the files out!
I saw it could found the files, but they are in special names,
it would mess me up as some of them might not have correct extensions.

I search through the newsgroup, could anyone tell me that is that I can
try > Recovery Console or modify the MBR ?

Have you tried Partition Magic?

By the way, the hardisk is surely not physically damaged as checked.

The MBR could be corrupted. Partition Magic will tell you what the MBR
says the disk structure is.

If you had multiple logical drives on it, PM should be able to read them.