SOS - Disks have disappeared after "Delayed Write Error". Need Hel

[Guest]

Hi Folks. Here's the ocnfig of my machine before I start my question:

Intel Pentium 3GHz HT
Windows XP Professional
250 GB cumulative space (I have got 2 separate physical internal drives)
1GB RAM

The problem:
I was receiving a "Delayed Write Error" over the past few days and I took
the necessary precautions outlined under Article ID 330174. Basically I
turned off the "Enabled Cache..." option under hardware policies and changed
the registry settings to whatever was specified in that article. Everything
was going smoothly till last night when I started receiving the error again
so I shut down the machine.

Today morning when I switched my machine on, I found that 3 partitions from
one of my HDs have disappeared. THAT HD I presume is a SATA drive, while the
other intact one is an IDE (pardon my knowledge about hardwares if I am
wrong). I downloaded a program called "diskcheckup" and luckily it identified
both the drives. I sincererly hope that I have not lost my disks and the data
within it.

Please help me with some solutions, guys. I want to do this on my own so you
will need to be simple in your explanations.

 

[DL]

Go to the hd manu site and download/run their disk checking utility

 

[Rock]

Hi Folks. Here's the ocnfig of my machine before I start my question:

Intel Pentium 3GHz HT
Windows XP Professional
250 GB cumulative space (I have got 2 separate physical internal drives)
1GB RAM

The problem:
I was receiving a "Delayed Write Error" over the past few days and I took
the necessary precautions outlined under Article ID 330174. Basically I
turned off the "Enabled Cache..." option under hardware policies and
changed
the registry settings to whatever was specified in that article.
Everything
was going smoothly till last night when I started receiving the error
again
so I shut down the machine.

Today morning when I switched my machine on, I found that 3 partitions
from
one of my HDs have disappeared. THAT HD I presume is a SATA drive, while
the
other intact one is an IDE (pardon my knowledge about hardwares if I am
wrong). I downloaded a program called "diskcheckup" and luckily it
identified
both the drives. I sincererly hope that I have not lost my disks and the
data
within it.

Please help me with some solutions, guys. I want to do this on my own so
you
will need to be simple in your explanations.

Hopefully when you noticed the problem originally and you took "the
necessary precautions" that also involved making a full and complete backup
of important data.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rock/DL,

The latest update is that I can see the disks back now on my computer. I
have a tendency to procrastinate and hence have bene delaying my purchase of
a DVD player. I will surely get it sooner than later.

DL, can you be specific about where I should be downloading the disk
checking utility from? I could not gather the same from your reply.

Cheers,
Bhooshan

 

[Rock]

Hi Rock/DL,

The latest update is that I can see the disks back now on my computer. I
have a tendency to procrastinate and hence have bene delaying my purchase
of
a DVD player. I will surely get it sooner than later.

DL, can you be specific about where I should be downloading the disk
checking utility from? I could not gather the same from your reply.

Cheers,
Bhooshan

Great, now backup, backup, backup before you do anything else.

 

[DL]

From your hard disk manufacturer web site eg seagate/maxtor/WD etc

 

[Kerry Brown]

You need to follow Rock's advice and start backing up now. There is a strong
possibility something is going wrong with one or both of your hard drives.
Until you have any important data backed up do not do any more
troubleshooting.