Hard drive not available?

[Guest]

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Something really recently hosed up my computer. I could not boot into it,
even on Safe Mode. I had to reformat & reinstall Windows. Possibly Lucky
for me I had been backing up my data to my D drive. I've always been able to
restore my data in the past when similar events have occured. It is a
completely seperate drive, not just partitioned.

In Computer Management section of Admin tools, the drive is listed as
"active" and "healthy". However, it doesn't have drive letter associated
with it like my DVD drives do.

I REALLY need the data from that drive for restore purposes.... What am I
missing?

Thanks!!!
Dan

 

[chelsea]

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Hi Dan if I understand you correctly just go to Control Panel-Administrative
Tools-Computer Management-finally Disk management, which you will find under
storage. Click on your D: drive follwed by a right click. In the menu select
drive letter and path, click change and you can then select a drive letter
from the pull down menu. Then just reboot

Chelsea

"DanCheri" <DanCheri@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsB148C61-2A22-4804-9115-7726FF0676E2@microsoft.com...
> Something really recently hosed up my computer. I could not boot into it,
> even on Safe Mode. I had to reformat & reinstall Windows. Possibly Lucky
> for me I had been backing up my data to my D drive. I've always been able
> to
> restore my data in the past when similar events have occured. It is a
> completely seperate drive, not just partitioned.
>
> In Computer Management section of Admin tools, the drive is listed as
> "active" and "healthy". However, it doesn't have drive letter associated
> with it like my DVD drives do.
>
> I REALLY need the data from that drive for restore purposes.... What am I
> missing?
>
> Thanks!!!
> Dan

 

[Guest]

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I have done that, however there are only 2 options available to me: Delete
Partition or Help.

Thanks for trying!!!
Dan

"Chelsea" wrote:

> Hi Dan if I understand you correctly just go to Control Panel-Administrative
> Tools-Computer Management-finally Disk management, which you will find under
> storage. Click on your D: drive follwed by a right click. In the menu select
> drive letter and path, click change and you can then select a drive letter
> from the pull down menu. Then just reboot
>
> Chelsea
>
> "DanCheri" <DanCheri@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsB148C61-2A22-4804-9115-7726FF0676E2@microsoft.com...
> > Something really recently hosed up my computer. I could not boot into it,
> > even on Safe Mode. I had to reformat & reinstall Windows. Possibly Lucky
> > for me I had been backing up my data to my D drive. I've always been able
> > to
> > restore my data in the past when similar events have occured. It is a
> > completely seperate drive, not just partitioned.
> >
> > In Computer Management section of Admin tools, the drive is listed as
> > "active" and "healthy". However, it doesn't have drive letter associated
> > with it like my DVD drives do.
> >
> > I REALLY need the data from that drive for restore purposes.... What am I
> > missing?
> >
> > Thanks!!!
> > Dan
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Hate to crash your thread, but I have the exact same problem.
C'mon, where are the brainiacs with all the answers?
On a sidenote, if I needed to format and partition the disk again in order
to fix the problem, would Partition Magic alow me to save my data?

Dan

"DanCheri" wrote:

> Something really recently hosed up my computer. I could not boot into it,
> even on Safe Mode. I had to reformat & reinstall Windows. Possibly Lucky
> for me I had been backing up my data to my D drive. I've always been able to
> restore my data in the past when similar events have occured. It is a
> completely seperate drive, not just partitioned.
>
> In Computer Management section of Admin tools, the drive is listed as
> "active" and "healthy". However, it doesn't have drive letter associated
> with it like my DVD drives do.
>
> I REALLY need the data from that drive for restore purposes.... What am I
> missing?
>
> Thanks!!!
> Dan

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

I have the same problem. I was running XP home from my primary hard drive.
I did a new install of XP pro to my primary drive and made no changes to my
secondary drive. Now XP pro is not recognizing my secondary drive in the
same way as described. I also do not want to loose the data on my secondary
drive.

"FR8KCKR" wrote:

> Hate to crash your thread, but I have the exact same problem.
> C'mon, where are the brainiacs with all the answers?
> On a sidenote, if I needed to format and partition the disk again in order
> to fix the problem, would Partition Magic alow me to save my data?
>
> Dan
>
> "DanCheri" wrote:
>
> > Something really recently hosed up my computer. I could not boot into it,
> > even on Safe Mode. I had to reformat & reinstall Windows. Possibly Lucky
> > for me I had been backing up my data to my D drive. I've always been able to
> > restore my data in the past when similar events have occured. It is a
> > completely seperate drive, not just partitioned.
> >
> > In Computer Management section of Admin tools, the drive is listed as
> > "active" and "healthy". However, it doesn't have drive letter associated
> > with it like my DVD drives do.
> >
> > I REALLY need the data from that drive for restore purposes.... What am I
> > missing?
> >
> > Thanks!!!
> > Dan