Missing Hard Drive in Windows Explorer

[Mike]

Hi !
Hope you can help.

Using Windows XP Pro.
2 Hard Drives and 2 ROMS

Hard Drives are 80g partitioned into two C: OS and G: Data and a 160g F:
Data.

The problem is that the F: drive shows up in Device Manager and in Disk
Management but not in Windows Explorer, C: and G: do show up and are
accessible.

C: and G: are Master and G: is Slave on IDE 1 and the two ROM's are in IDE
2.
Belarc also shows the F: drive.

Other info.
Vol = Local Disk (F)
Layout = Simple
Type = Dynamic
File Sys = NTFS
Status = Healthy
Capacity = 149.05
Free = 103
% Free = 69%
Fault tolerance = No
Overhead = 0%

Please help me access the F: drive
No other Apps have been added and all virus and spyware are up to date and
are running.
ThanX again.
Mike in Africa
South Africa

 

[Guest]

Hi Mike go here and download Partition Magic 8 Trial

http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

I think your MBR Master Boot Record is at fault. I had a HD that did the
same thing two years ago and when I ran PM8 I think it showed up as YELLOW
which was not good. You can do a search on Google for software to fix the MBR
if that is what is wrong with it. Be very carefull in what you do, you can
make that drive inoperable.

 

[Mike]

ThanX for the reply.
Will download PM8.
Will the PM8 trial repair the fault or must I use another app to repair.
What could cause this to happen?

ThanX again.
Mike in Africa
South Africa