Re: Harddrive not recognized

From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:16:13 +1000

Ignore the "MS-RAMDRIVE" bit - it is, as its name says,
a RAM drive that was created by your boot disk. It is not
a physical disk.

It appears that the partition for drive D: got currupted or
deleted. Here are some tools that may help you to get it
back:

http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz
www.acronis.com (RecoveryExpert)

If these tool can't deliver then you may have to consider this
unfortunate event as a reminder to back up all your essential
data at least weekly, preferably to a medium that you keep
well away from your PC. Hard disks are very cheap these days,
as is the cradle for a removable hard disk.

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:13d2d01c41794$0eb973d0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for taking the time!! I'm not there yet. Here are
> answers to your questions:
> 1) I don't bellieve it was a dynamic volume.
> 2)It shows 'Volume in drive D: is MS-RAMDRIVE'
> 3) 'No NTFS drives recognized'.
>
> I saw under windows that I have the option to share the
> drive. Should I try to do that and then suck the data into
> another computer? Do you have ideas what I can do? I need
> this data on D:
>
> Thanks again for your help!
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >"Heiner" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:1651701c416c9$d88c56d0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I have a Maxtor 80GB harddisk as my second (D:) drive. I
> >> just installed windows 2000 (formerly had Windows 98,
> then
> >> transferred personal data from C: to D:, deleted C: and
> >> installed W2k on C:). The drive D: letter appears in the
> >> explorer, when I right click onit I get all the options,
> >> but when I left click on it it says: "The disk in drive
> D:
> >> is not formatted. Do you want to format?".
> >>
> >> There is a lot of important data on D: how can I safely
> >> get it back?
> >>
> >> Thanks so much for a quick reply!
> >
> >- Was your drive D: a dynamic volume?
> >- When you boot your disk with a win98 boot disk from
> > www.bootdisk.com and run fdisk.exe, what type of
> > partition do you see for your 80 GByte disk?
> >- If you now run this command:
> > ntfsdos.exe /L:EF
> > are any NTFS drives loaded? If yes, do they show
> > any data? ntfsdos.exe is freely available at
> > www.sysinternals.com.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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