Lost my D Drive

[Guest]

I was doing a disk cleanup on my extra drive (I have a c drive and an
independent D drive) and when I went in and compressed my D drive I lost my D
drive, in other words it doesn't show up. I had all my pics, fonts, tags,
etc. on it, how do I make it show up on "My Computer"? Please say I didn't
loose it all!

Regards

ImASweetP
Senior Citizen

 

[Holz]

Please say I didn't
loose it all!

Did you try the magic reboot?
what does disk manager say, is it showing up in there?

 

[Ron Badour]

Let's clarify some information so someone has a better shot at helping you.

Do you have one physical hard drive or two drives? You can have two
partitions on one hard drive so the distinction is important.

If two drives, did you check control panel, system, hardware, device
manager, disk drives or look in the BIOS to see if the second drive is
reflected there?

Was the D: partition an NTFS partition? If so, did you use a WinXP method
of compression and if so, which one did you use?

I have never been a fan of compressing files. It is OK until something goes
wrong and then you scramble like mad trying to save the day. Considering
the cost of hard drives, if you are short on drive space, get a larger
drive. If money is a concern, place your files on CDs (or some device) and
then delete the files from the drive.

 

[Paul Pedersen]

I agree. Not only that, but pictures (jpeg) and movies don't compress much
anyway, so the space savings will be minimal. Better to get a bigger drive.

That said, go into the Disk Manager (right click on My Computer and choose
Manage) and try to find and mount your drive from there.

 

[Guest]

Please have patience with me...

I have two(2) physical hard drives listed.... in my Disk drives (Maxtor
6E040L0 and Samsung SV 4002H) .
I have rebooted and it still doesn't show up in My computer.
I now know it is there right? How do I access it.

Many thanx

Jeneen

 

[Mistoffolees]

Please have patience with me...

I have two(2) physical hard drives listed.... in my Disk drives (Maxtor
6E040L0 and Samsung SV 4002H) .
I have rebooted and it still doesn't show up in My computer.
I now know it is there right? How do I access it.

Many thanx

Jeneen

Let's find out whether or not the drive is still alive and kicking.
Reboot the computer and open bios setup. In bios setup, check whether
or not Drive D is seen by the computer. It should be identified by
its name (e.g., Maxtor or Samsung...only you know which is the Master
and Slave). If the drive is listed in bios setup, then verify that it
is set up for "Autodetect". If changes were made in bios setup, then
save them and let the computer continue its reboot. With good luck,
the Drive may re-appear in My Computer without any more work involved.
This does not mean that the files are recoverable, however, although
there are software utilities available for this purpose.

If the drive is not listed in bios setup, then it is essentially "lost".
Or, in other words, the drive has broken. Recovering any data from it
will probably require professional work and money.

If the drive is listed but files cannot be recovered, then back to
Ron Badour's post. But why compress the drive? Changing the native
format of any drive is always an invitation to disaster unless one
already has an uncompressed backup of the drive's important files
stored away somewhere. Let this be a lesson.

Good luck and good hunting!

 

[Ron Badour]

Hi Jeneen

Patience is one thing we are long on here When you provide information,
be sure that you have answered all questions asked of you.

I am going to assume that you used NTFS compression and that you compressed
the whole drive. In that I have never done this, I consulted a MS manual on
WinXP and it says that it could take several hours for the compression to
complete. Has your computer been running so the operation could complete?
I don't know if this would make the drive disappear from My Computer but I
could not find anything else that seemed to fit the circumstances. Let's
see if someone else comes up with any ideas.

There are data recovery programs available but you are not at that point
yet.

 

[Guest]

I just went into my system folder in the control panel, now I don't have the
Maxtor listed at all?????????? I did go into the bios and it says that the
Maxtor is there tho so I put it on (Auto) and rebooted and XP did not load,
but it says the slave drive was not working. Now what? I hope I can solve
this myself as these puter places in "smallsville USA" charge an arm and a
leg and then some!

Frustrated
Jeneen

 

[Guest]

P.S. When I reboot it says "Primary slave drive failed" so I went into bios
and under Maxtor put instead of auto I put none and now windows loads. Phew
I'm getting more confused

Jeneen

 

[Ron Badour]

Given that development, I think the first thing to check is to see if the
hard drive has failed. Maxtor has diagnostic software that you can download
from its web site. It installs on a floppy disk which is inserted in the
drive and you reboot. In the BIOS, the first boot device needs to be set to
the floppy drive. Running this program will tell you the health of your
drive.

 

[Guest]

Ran the diagnostic software I got on the web and I think the drive is
probably gone. I'm taking the puter in to get it running faster anyway
tomorrow and will have them check the D drive too.

Many thanx for your help tho

Jeneen

 

[n.jonshon]

I was doing a disk cleanup on my extra drive (I have a c drive and an
independent D drive) and when I went in and compressed my D drive I lost my D
drive, in other words it doesn't show up. I had all my pics, fonts, tags,
etc. on it, how do I make it show up on "My Computer"? Please say I didn't
loose it all!

Regards

ImASweetP
Senior Citizen

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seems to help you then you can take the help of the third party
software. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software a very useful
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Download the demo:http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm,
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Hope this will help you out.

 

[Guest]

i have the same problem i have tried everything that the help and support
says in my start menu but the device manager says its working properly.?
did you solve the problem if so how??