Yes, replaced faulty memory card, and installed XP again. E drive does not show up on 'my computer' but is present just about everywhere else.bonk said:
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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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Under Device Manager the drive is mentioned without any faults/problems. Under Disk Management the drive is mentioned, showing the data is still there but that the drive is not allocated. I have not hidden the drive , it just doesn't show up anymore under My Computer nor is the drive accessible.Elvandil said:How does it appear in Disk Management (Is that what you mean by "drive manager"?)? Have you hidden E: from My Computer with TweakUI or similar?
Try the recovery software. If you use the right one, you can nearly always get your data back. I have had good luck with Ontrack's Easyrecovery. But there are many others. Try the recommended PCInspector one since it is free.
I have downloaded the PCInspector programme, but when I tried to use it a warning came up saying I might loose all data and 60GB is a lot of data to loose, so, reluctant to use it.
The data is not lost (yet!) I hope, otherwise it wouldn't be showing up as 'used space'. All I want is to have access to my E drive again and the data it contains and I'm not sure why I should have to 'recover' the data as the drive is showing up everywhere as being there except under 'my computer' (it does say I have a floppy drive which I haven't !). Also, if recovering the data does work without loosing any, where would it be recovered to and will I have access again to my E-drive? (my C-drive is only 60GB)JohnWill said:Note that you have already lost all of the data, you're trying to get it back. Any data recovery application will have a similar warning, but you're going to have to trust one of them.
Right, after a lot of trying it turns out that the PCInspector is just a demo, it doesn't do a thing. I have used a trial version of OntrackEasyrecovery and it appears all the files are still there and intact and recoverable but the trial version doesn't allow the actual recovery process and the working version seems somewhat expensive.........Elvandil said:How does it appear in Disk Management (Is that what you mean by "drive manager"?)? Have you hidden E: from My Computer with TweakUI or similar?
Try the recovery software. If you use the right one, you can nearly always get your data back. I have had good luck with Ontrack's Easyrecovery. But there are many others. Try the recommended PCInspector one since it is free.
Any suggestions ?
Downloaded it several times, still the same result, no option to recover filesbigbear said:Where did you download it from ? it should be a free working software
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm
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