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Dragon 185
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Hi, I hope someone can help me.
After reinstalling Xp Pro on my system I noticed one of my H.D.D is missing, so I went to Disk management plug in. now in this it displays the H.D.D. with no path letter. it shows that there is data on there and the free space remaining. It shows the drive has a FAT32 file system and it's status as Healthy(Active) I just can't get access to it. When I right click on the drive icon the only option it gives me is "Delete Partition" I'm afraid I can't do this as their are some important files on it (yea I know I havn't backed up for a couple of weeks). I tried using the recovery console after booting from the XP Pro cd to see if I can get access to it, but although i got access to it I cannot get access to the directory's on it so cannot transfer the more important files to the other H.D.D on my sys.
I also Booted up from an MIllenium Boot disk, but it doesn't see any of my H.D.D once boot sequence is finished.
As a desparate measure I went round to a friends house and connected my H.D.D. to his machime, in the hopes that having Win98 SE might allow it to access the drive, but unfortunately no, it can see it in the device manager it doesn't assign it a path letter and tells me it is an unformatted drive, which I know it is not.
The drive in question is a Maxtor 40 Gb 7200rpm unit, now it worked fine before I re-installed Win XP pro again.
Does anyone out there know a way that I can gain acces to the files on that unit and copy them to my other drive. I am desperate, please help if you can. my sys stats are:
Asus A7V-133 m/b with the latest Via 4 in 1 drivers and Asus 1005a bios
Athlon TB 1.2 ghz cpu
512mb pc-133 ram
2 x Maxtor 40gb 7200rpm H.D.D
If you want more info, reply here and I'll try to supply it.
Many thanx
Dragon 185
After reinstalling Xp Pro on my system I noticed one of my H.D.D is missing, so I went to Disk management plug in. now in this it displays the H.D.D. with no path letter. it shows that there is data on there and the free space remaining. It shows the drive has a FAT32 file system and it's status as Healthy(Active) I just can't get access to it. When I right click on the drive icon the only option it gives me is "Delete Partition" I'm afraid I can't do this as their are some important files on it (yea I know I havn't backed up for a couple of weeks). I tried using the recovery console after booting from the XP Pro cd to see if I can get access to it, but although i got access to it I cannot get access to the directory's on it so cannot transfer the more important files to the other H.D.D on my sys.
I also Booted up from an MIllenium Boot disk, but it doesn't see any of my H.D.D once boot sequence is finished.
As a desparate measure I went round to a friends house and connected my H.D.D. to his machime, in the hopes that having Win98 SE might allow it to access the drive, but unfortunately no, it can see it in the device manager it doesn't assign it a path letter and tells me it is an unformatted drive, which I know it is not.
The drive in question is a Maxtor 40 Gb 7200rpm unit, now it worked fine before I re-installed Win XP pro again.
Does anyone out there know a way that I can gain acces to the files on that unit and copy them to my other drive. I am desperate, please help if you can. my sys stats are:
Asus A7V-133 m/b with the latest Via 4 in 1 drivers and Asus 1005a bios
Athlon TB 1.2 ghz cpu
512mb pc-133 ram
2 x Maxtor 40gb 7200rpm H.D.D
If you want more info, reply here and I'll try to supply it.
Many thanx
Dragon 185