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Unallocated Drive

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Chores

Discussion Starter · Jan 7, 2007

Help ! I have got 2 drives, C & E, and everything was working fine till one morning I got a blue screen on start up, memory dumping etc etc. Turned out to be a corrupt memory card (I got 2 of them). Card was replaced but sadly lost all data on my C drive in the process ! Unfortunately, my E drive (still containing 60GB of data !) is now no longer accessible but it does show up in device manager with no problems. Under drive manager it shows up as unallocated. So far, all the advise given meant to reformat the disk and subsequently I will loose all the data of my E drive as well !! Isn't there another way without having to loose all the data ? Also, I've got a little programme monitoring the temp of the 2 drives and the E drive does show up on the result screen, so it's there, got power etc etc

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crjdriver

· #9 · Jan 8, 2007

When you use data recovery type software, it recovers the files to another drive. You cannot recover data to the same physical drive.
I would guess you are getting the unallocated msg due to some partition corruption and or damage to the drive.
Your choices are as pretty slime here.
1 Run the software
2 Take the drive to a data recovery shop [probably somewhat expensive]
3 Restore data from a backup [I assume you have backed up important info]

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