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New Hard Drive Worked, Then Disappeared
I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C.
I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob |
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"W-Bob" wrote in message ...
I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C. I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Does it show in device manager? It's possible only the partition information is missing or corrupted. (hope springs eternal) Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob If the drive is visible in DM, but doesn't have any drive letters assigned to it, then there are no visible FAT-type partitions defined. To obtain more information- Download partinfo.zip ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...s/partinfo.zip Unzip to a bootable DOS floppy. Boot to DOS and run partinfo a:\partinfo.txt Copy/paste the file output to a reply to this message. |
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:04:01 -0800, W-Bob
wrote: I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C. I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob As Bill Blanton asked, is it listed in Device Manager? If so and you are using TweakUI then under the My Computer tab make sure EVERY drive is checked. Also try booting to Dos or use your startup diskette then change to the D: drive by entering D: Any error message? Then enter DIR, do you see the files and folders? You've probably tried these but it's worth mentioning. I always use copy/paste then if all is well I delete the old folder. Hope you resolve it quickly. Regards, Bill Watt Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/ |
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Booting to the startup disk doesn't help. If I have both C and D drives, the
only one seen is C. If I use just the D drive, it creates a new virtual drive that only contains the startup files. The Device Manager sees 3 things: an Intel dual controller, a primary controller and a secondary controller. All are said to be working OK with no conflicts. However, C is the only drive showing in My Computer. QUESTION: If I add a FAT32 partition, do I lose the data already on the drive? And if it was NOT partitioned, how did it let me store data there after I "formatted" it??? I'm thinking now I'll have to send the drive to a shop to try recovering the data, reformatting and reloading the data -- if that's possible! "W-Bob" wrote: I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C. I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob |
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"W-Bob" wrote in message ... Booting to the startup disk doesn't help. If I have both C and D drives, the only one seen is C. If I use just the D drive, it creates a new virtual drive that only contains the startup files. The Device Manager sees 3 things: an Intel dual controller, a primary controller and a secondary controller. All are said to be working OK with no conflicts. However, C is the only drive showing in My Computer. QUESTION: If I add a FAT32 partition, do I lose the data already on the drive? And if it was NOT partitioned, how did it let me store data there after I "formatted" it??? I'm thinking now I'll have to send the drive to a shop to try recovering the data, reformatting and reloading the data -- if that's possible! "W-Bob" wrote: I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C. I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob if you used a boot disk ..the virtual drive is D: ...CDROM would be E: so your "other "drive would probably be F: |
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I don't know if you saw my suggestion to run partinfo or not, but
partinfo doesn't care about OS drive letter assignments. Yes, if you "add a FAT32 partition" you will probably lose your data for good. Don't do anything that writes to the disk until you figure out what's wrong. If you do end up sending it somewhere, choose a reputable data recovery service, and not one of those big-box computer retailers. "W-Bob" wrote in message ... Booting to the startup disk doesn't help. If I have both C and D drives, the only one seen is C. If I use just the D drive, it creates a new virtual drive that only contains the startup files. The Device Manager sees 3 things: an Intel dual controller, a primary controller and a secondary controller. All are said to be working OK with no conflicts. However, C is the only drive showing in My Computer. QUESTION: If I add a FAT32 partition, do I lose the data already on the drive? And if it was NOT partitioned, how did it let me store data there after I "formatted" it??? I'm thinking now I'll have to send the drive to a shop to try recovering the data, reformatting and reloading the data -- if that's possible! "W-Bob" wrote: I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C. I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob |
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I've never had to use a data recovery service knock on wood, but Drive Savers
comes highly recommended by a few other MVPs: http://www.data-recovery-tools.net/dr/drivesavers.html http://www.drivesavers.com/ I'm still hoping the OP posts back with the partinfo report. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Bill Blanton" wrote in message ... I don't know if you saw my suggestion to run partinfo or not, but partinfo doesn't care about OS drive letter assignments. Yes, if you "add a FAT32 partition" you will probably lose your data for good. Don't do anything that writes to the disk until you figure out what's wrong. If you do end up sending it somewhere, choose a reputable data recovery service, and not one of those big-box computer retailers. "W-Bob" wrote in message ... Booting to the startup disk doesn't help. If I have both C and D drives, the only one seen is C. If I use just the D drive, it creates a new virtual drive that only contains the startup files. The Device Manager sees 3 things: an Intel dual controller, a primary controller and a secondary controller. All are said to be working OK with no conflicts. However, C is the only drive showing in My Computer. QUESTION: If I add a FAT32 partition, do I lose the data already on the drive? And if it was NOT partitioned, how did it let me store data there after I "formatted" it??? I'm thinking now I'll have to send the drive to a shop to try recovering the data, reformatting and reloading the data -- if that's possible! "W-Bob" wrote: I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C. I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob |
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I'll do partinfo on Saturday -- we've got 4 people sharing the home computer
and you can imagine the pressure to keep the old clunker running. I really appreciate all your comments -- the Seagate people were pretty useless since it wasn't a mechanical problem. They couldn't fathom that it worked and then quit. Please check back this weekend and help me analize the report I get. Tnx, Bob "Bill Blanton" wrote: "W-Bob" wrote in message ... I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C. I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Does it show in device manager? It's possible only the partition information is missing or corrupted. (hope springs eternal) Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob If the drive is visible in DM, but doesn't have any drive letters assigned to it, then there are no visible FAT-type partitions defined. To obtain more information- Download partinfo.zip ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...s/partinfo.zip Unzip to a bootable DOS floppy. Boot to DOS and run partinfo a:\partinfo.txt Copy/paste the file output to a reply to this message. |
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Ok. Reply in this thread.
"W-Bob" wrote in message ... I'll do partinfo on Saturday -- we've got 4 people sharing the home computer and you can imagine the pressure to keep the old clunker running. I really appreciate all your comments -- the Seagate people were pretty useless since it wasn't a mechanical problem. They couldn't fathom that it worked and then quit. Please check back this weekend and help me analize the report I get. Tnx, Bob "Bill Blanton" wrote: "W-Bob" wrote in message ... I have a Pentium II 350 running Win 98 on a Western Digital 10gig drive as C. I installed a 20gig Seagate drive, setting WD as master and Sea as slave, changed the CMOS to auto/LBA and booted. The new drive came up as the D, but showed as full. Win98 then asked if I wanted to format it, and I clicked Yes for a full format. It then allocated 8 gigs and asked me to name the drive ("Backup"). I was then able to move files from C to D, but then decided to move the whole My Documents folder, which had about 2 gigs of files in it. It prompted me about moving an .ini file and I said Yes. I then re-set the desktop icon to point to D/My Documents. Overnight, the D disappeared and the My Documents (empty) reappeared on C. I really really really want to recover the data on D, but have tried rebooting to floppy and booting to C and to Safe Mode. No luck: the Seagate shows up in the CMOS and the grid displayed just before Windows fully loads (Primary Slave: LBA, UDMA 2, 20014) but it does not show up in My Computer. I've tried changing jumpers, moving the Seagate to the 2nd IDE, etc. Does it show in device manager? It's possible only the partition information is missing or corrupted. (hope springs eternal) Is there any way to recover my data or get the D drive recognized without a complete reformat???? Thanks, Bob If the drive is visible in DM, but doesn't have any drive letters assigned to it, then there are no visible FAT-type partitions defined. To obtain more information- Download partinfo.zip ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...s/partinfo.zip Unzip to a bootable DOS floppy. Boot to DOS and run partinfo a:\partinfo.txt Copy/paste the file output to a reply to this message. |
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