Re: Why did XP decide my partition has NO file system?
From: Angelfood MacSpade (angelfood_macspade_at_hotmailNOSPAM.com)
Date: 01/04/05
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:05:21 GMT
It now looks like my hard drive is no longer useable. I have
reformatted in Disk Management - first using the quick format option.
All appeared fine until I rebooted and then once again XP decided the
drive had no file system. I then did a full format, copied my data
back, rebooted once and all looked fine. But after a 2nd reboot, the
drive is again without a file system. What a huge PITA.
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:11:19 GMT, Angelfood MacSpade
<angelfood_macspade@hotmailNOSPAM.com> wrote:
>My ordeal started with a forced shutdown of XP (I have to do this on
>occasion). CHKDSK started up to check my drive N: (the only partition
>in a 180GB WD drive), finished quickly and found no errors. However
>now XP (Disk Management) thinks my N: drive is empty and has NO file
>system. It was formatted as NTFS and was (and is) about 50% full.
>
>The really fascinating thing is that all my disk utilities like
>PartitionMagic 8 and Active Partition Recovery do not see any errors
>whatsoever - and see the file system as NTFS.
>
>I can use an undelete utility to recover my data across my network,
>format the drive and restore everything but it will take the entire
>day. But is there something I can do within XP to convince it that the
>drive has an NTFS file system??
>
>One implicating factor might be that I recently changed this partition
>to 64K file clusters from 4K (it's used primarily for video storage).
>Although everything seemed fine for a day, could this file cluster
>change have messed up XP somehow?
>
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