Re: hard disk malfunction

"Matt Emmott" wrote

hi Xero,

If you right click the drive and get properties, can you go to the Tools tab
and check the drive for errors? It sounds like your FAT table might be
messed up, and a scandisk can sometimes fix this.

Matt

"Xero" wrote:

hello. I have a Win XP Pro SP1 computer, which has two physical hard disks. I
have installed XP on one ('drive A') and the other one is used to store files
('drive B'), which is labelled 'DATA'.

the machine has been running smoothly until just now - I turn on the machine
and have discovered the following symptoms :
- the theme used in XP, which is stored in 'drive B' cannot be loaded
- the label of 'drive B', instead of the usual 'DATA', becomes 'Local Disk'
- the usage status of 'drive B' becomes
Free Space: 39.8BGB
Total Size: 39.8GB
which is definitely false because I have used much space on it
- when i try to open 'drive B' in Windows Explorer, Windows says the drive
has not been formatted
- none of the files stored in 'drive B' can be retrieved

I suspect the hard disk has malfunctioned.
is there anyway to bring it back into use without losing the files stored in
it?

thank you very much.

Xero


There is no scandisk in XP, it's chkdsk.

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

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