Missing Drive

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Brian

I need help/ideas for a problem if anyone can help me please.
I have lost a drive that had a bunch of personal info on it and now the
drive does not even show on my pc.

WINXP and I have 3 harddrives and had drives c - h and then my DVD drive was
I: ....rebooted and chkdsk ran and now the drive letters have changed and my
DVD is H: and all my personal info that was on drive H: is gone...Any way to
get this drive and what was in it back?...I tried system restore and got
this : "Changes made to drive(s) I: H: after this point cannot be reversed
because the drive was either excluded from system restore monitoring,or was
turned off or removed."

I have no third party disk management software installed and have not
touched the security settings for any of the drives.

Does not look promising I know...Anybody have any ideas/suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.


Thanks,
Brian
 
If you right click on My Computer and goto 'Manage' and then click on 'Disk
Management', what does it show?
 
Ok now after leaving the pc off all night the drive is back (multiple
reboots last night did nothing) and when I look in Disk Management it shows
the drive under LAYOUT as Simple (all others are Partition).....Type says
Dynamic (all others are Basic)....File Sytem as NTFS very weird (all others
FAT32)....and Status says Healthy (At Risk)
Obviously I am backing everything up onto another HEALTHY drive....but is
there anything I can do to fix this situation?I guess the only wat to go
from NTFS to FAT32 would be to format the drive?

Thanks,
Brian
 
Ju,

Thanks very much.The MS article that you provided on Volume Status
Description helped out greatly and seems to have fixed the problem (for now
anyways) as I did do the Reactivate Disk command and it did bring the drive
back to healthy status...I have already backed up tyhe info I had on there
and will use this drive only for emergency sake and will make sure anything
is backed up on it.

Thanks again,
Brian
 
no problem :)

Brian said:
Ju,

Thanks very much.The MS article that you provided on Volume Status
Description helped out greatly and seems to have fixed the problem (for
now
anyways) as I did do the Reactivate Disk command and it did bring the
drive
back to healthy status...I have already backed up tyhe info I had on there
and will use this drive only for emergency sake and will make sure
anything
is backed up on it.

Thanks again,
Brian
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