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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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Elvandil

· #5 · Jan 8, 2007

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.

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Elvandil

· #10 · Jan 9, 2007

When you run a recovery program, you will need to put the recovered data somewhere. You can make a folder on your working drive and recover data to it. When it is full, burn the dtat to CD or move it off the drive to make more room, or send it to another location on your network, if you have one.

After all the data is removed, you can repartition and reformat your drive to get it back. You will not be able to just normally access that drive to get to your data so long as the file system has problems. Your computer doesn't know where on the drive to look for the dtat without a functioning file system.

You could try a partition recovery program like Testdisk, but it would still be a good idea to try recovery of the data first so that any manipulations you make on the drive don't make the data even further unrecoverable. The data is "lost" now, though, we hope, not completely.

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