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I'm running Windows XP Pro on a dual PIII with a Gig of RAM, 128MB ATI Radeon All in Wonder, Audigy 2 sound, regular flat panel monitor, wireless mouse, keyboard, and network, all linksys
I had an 80GB drive as C: and a 120GB drive as D:. The 80GB Drive crashed so I removed it installed a new 120GB as the C: and re-installed Windows XP. The D: didn't show up.
After following some advice on another posting from another site, I went to the admin tools and Storage-Disk management found the drive. I can't remember exactly what it was listed as but it did show up. I intialized it and then the stupid part. I read the instructions, I thought, and it said that it was going to partition the blank space on the drive...instead, it made one huge partition and wiped out my data
It was a stupid, in a hurry mistake. I have most of the data backed up but would like to get the 5-6 hours that I lost. When I was running through the process I remember it not giving me an option to make an extended partition...I have since ran through the process again (looking for any way to undo my mistake) on different 120GB hard drives and it has asked for extended partitions every time
I know that 3rd party tools can undo partitions and so on but isn't that only if they were used to make that partition in the first place? Someone else has recommended Partition Magic 8 but didn't know for sure if it would work
Let me answer a few anticipated questions
No I haven't formatted the drive...not that stupid
No I haven't left the drive connected...not willing to take the chance
Yes it does ask to format the drive when I tried to access it
Yes, the BIOS are all correct...afterall it did show up in the disk management and it did show up before the 80GB crash
Windows XP SP1 (and maybe some other updates that I have installed) does recognize more than 2 120GB drives, other systems on my network identicle to the one I made the mistake on are running them
Thanks in advance for the help
I had an 80GB drive as C: and a 120GB drive as D:. The 80GB Drive crashed so I removed it installed a new 120GB as the C: and re-installed Windows XP. The D: didn't show up.
After following some advice on another posting from another site, I went to the admin tools and Storage-Disk management found the drive. I can't remember exactly what it was listed as but it did show up. I intialized it and then the stupid part. I read the instructions, I thought, and it said that it was going to partition the blank space on the drive...instead, it made one huge partition and wiped out my data
It was a stupid, in a hurry mistake. I have most of the data backed up but would like to get the 5-6 hours that I lost. When I was running through the process I remember it not giving me an option to make an extended partition...I have since ran through the process again (looking for any way to undo my mistake) on different 120GB hard drives and it has asked for extended partitions every time
I know that 3rd party tools can undo partitions and so on but isn't that only if they were used to make that partition in the first place? Someone else has recommended Partition Magic 8 but didn't know for sure if it would work
Let me answer a few anticipated questions
No I haven't formatted the drive...not that stupid
No I haven't left the drive connected...not willing to take the chance
Yes it does ask to format the drive when I tried to access it
Yes, the BIOS are all correct...afterall it did show up in the disk management and it did show up before the 80GB crash
Windows XP SP1 (and maybe some other updates that I have installed) does recognize more than 2 120GB drives, other systems on my network identicle to the one I made the mistake on are running them
Thanks in advance for the help