Re: Locked out of part of partition hard drive...HELP

From: sgopus (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:48:05 -0700

As a further note, you might check disk management and see
if a drive letter has been assigned, a few months ago, one
of my hd's lost it's drive letter for some strange reason
and asked me if I wanted to format it, I was astonished of
course, as I have important data on it, and di not want to
format, in my checking I discovered the lost drive letter
and reassigned one, it worked fine, no format needed.

>-----Original Message-----
>Don't format it obviously. You might try to go to
Computer Management/Disk
>Management and find that drive, right click it and see if
there is an option
>to refresh or initialize. You also may want to put that
drive in another
>W2K/XP computer as a slave/secondary and see if you can
access it that way.
>Try downlaoding diagnostic software from your hard drive
manufacturer to run
>and check your disk and make sure that the cable to it
and the motherboard
>are firmly seated. --- Steve
>
>
>"blkscorp" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:151c401c41a1d$c527f340$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was running my computer just fine when it froze for a
>> bit. I reseted the computer and every was back in order
>> except one of my hard drive which partitioned is now
>> locked out and asks me if I'd like to "format" it. I was
>> wonder if there is any way to get it back since I have
>> alot of important data on that partition.
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
>.
>

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