help with offline drive

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From: sanj (sanj_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/16/04


Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:37:09 -0700

Hi,

I have 2 hard drives in my pc. Disk 1 is 60Gb IBM hard drive and Disk 2 is
a 80Gb Maxtor 6 hard drive.

Disk 2 is fairly new and has been working extremely well until this morning.
 I cannot access or even see it under My Computer. When I right click on My
Computer and click on Manage and then go to Disk Management, Disk 1 says it
is offline and I cannot seem to reactive it.

Can someone pleasee help as I have important documents on that drive :(



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