My system can not now take the name of the disc and does not assign a drive letter

[Levlg]

Something happened to my local hard disk. My system can not now take the
name of the disc (which usualle you can set through the Properties window).
The system does not assign a drive letter for the disk. But it could take
and show in the properties the type and characteristics of the device. There
is RAW instead of NTFS in the Disk Management window. The system offers to
format the drive, but I know that the information was not erased.
How can I remedy the situation?

Thank you

Lev

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Something happened to my local hard disk. My system can not now
take the name of the disc (which usualle you can set through the
Properties window). The system does not assign a drive letter for
the disk. But it could take and show in the properties the type and
characteristics of the device. There is RAW instead of NTFS in the
Disk Management window. The system offers to format the drive, but
I know that the information was not erased. How can I remedy the
situation?

- Is this an actual second physical internal hard disk drive?
- Or is this a second partition on the primary (only) physical hard disk
drive?
- Or is this an external hard disk drive (and how is it connected?)
- Or is this not a hard disk drive at all - but a USB 'memory stick' or some
other type of memory device?

- What operating system (version and service pack level at least) are you
running?
- What do you see in 'Disk Manager'?
- If an external device - how does it act in other machines?
- What was the last change done before you noticed the issue?

 

[Levlg]

Thank you for your letter, Shenan!

- Is this an actual second physical internal hard disk drive? - Yes, it is
a second physical internal hard disk drive.
- Or is this a second partition on the primary (only) physical hard disk
drive? - No.
- Or is this an external hard disk drive (and how is it connected?) - I
tried to connect this hard drive through ISO GEAR 481 E 3.5" External
Enclosure eSATA + USB 2.0. I reseived the same result.
- Or is this not a hard disk drive at all - but a USB 'memory stick' or
some other type of memory device? - No, this is the physical internal hard
disk drive with SATA interface.
- What operating system (version and service pack level at least) are you
running? - It was under Vista.
- What do you see in 'Disk Manager'? - I see unformatted space and RAW
instead of NTFS.
- If an external device - how does it act in other machines? - I did not
try this.
- What was the last change done before you noticed the issue? - I do not
remember when I recorded something on this drive. It was a long time ago. I
worked with Visual Studio 2008 before I noticed the issue. And the Visual
Studio 2008 and resultes of my work were on my first physical internal hard
disk drive.

Best wishes
Lev