Lost A Drive!!!

[Duke Rupert]

I have 2 disk drives in my system, 1 100 GB and 1 60 GB. The 100 is
partitioned 4 ways evenly, and the 60 3 ways. I recently had a virus which
caused me to have to reinstall XP to get things working properly again. I
had a number of stored files on the 60 GB drive, which I transferred to the
100 GB drive, then back after I formatted the drive.

For some reason, I have lost the ability to access one of the partitions on
the 60 Gb drive in Windows. The drive shows up in My Computer as Local
Disk(D, but if I click on it I get a drive is not accessible error. This
is bumming me out, because I have roughly 19 GB of stored files on there,
including a lot of my 18 month old son.

I can see the drive fine if I boot in DOS using an old boot disk, and I can
access the files.

My question is this: Is there some way to repair the drive so that I can
access it in Windows without having to copy everything over in DOS?
If I have to use DOS to copy anything over,
is there a command that will copy an entire directory tree, or do I have to
go one directory at a time?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Duke

 

[Brian K]

Try BartPE Builder. It should see the drive in the A43 File Management
Utility and you can copy the data to another partition. It will only take
you 15 minutes to make the CD.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Brian

 

[wayne]

If you can access the drive in DOS use the XCopy command and move the files
ANY utility you may try COULD cause you to lose your data if you can move it
in DOS do it.

After you have moved or copied all the files of try running scandisk on the
drive.

The FIRST rule of repairing a drive is to get the data off the drive.

Since you can do this that is what you should do!


Wayne

 

[Duke Rupert]

Thanks for the advice on XCOPY. I wasn't aware of that command.
Unfortunately, I tried it and it didn't work. I think it may be because the
boot disk that I am using is an old Windoes 95 Setup boot disk. Apparently
it doesn't recognize the XCOPY command. I also tried running safe mode with
command prompt, but when I tried to switch to my D: drive (the one that is
missing), I got the error DATE ERROR (cyclic redundancy check).

Any further suggestions on how to get to a version of DOS that will
recognize both the XCOPY command as well as my missing drive?

Thanks

 

[Wayne]

best thing is just to use the copy command for each folder to make things
simpler you could build a batch file but it will probably be simpler just to
go to each folder to get the files off

Wayne