[eternal11]

so, im going about my normal business, and i bring my computer over to hushy's house to work on a project, and when i boot it up, all of my drives are detected, but once i get into Windows, and look in 'my computer', my second hard drive (D Drive) is no longer detected. i go to disk management and it shows the drive but its unallocated and what not, so i have to reformat it in order to see it in 'my computer' and that would mean losing all of my files. is there anything i can do to get the data back?

 

[scottlc]

Perhaps a Linux live CD?

 

[RZetlin]

Which OS is this?

Reconnect the IDE cable again to make sure the cable hasn't come loose.

 

[Mad]

u can use either a linux live cd, like knoppix or kurumin, or use BartPE, since it is winxp based...
I recommend 2nd option...

 

[Phoenix]

so, im going about my normal business, and i bring my computer over to hushy's house to work on a project, and when i boot it up, all of my drives are detected, but once i get into Windows, and look in 'my computer', my second hard drive (D Drive) is no longer detected. i go to disk management and it shows the drive but its unallocated and what not, so i have to reformat it in order to see it in 'my computer' and that would mean losing all of my files. is there anything i can do to get the data back?

you could retrieve the data using getdataback

 

[eternal11]

im running win xp with sp2, and the cables are all connected securely..i will try that getdataback program right now, and then perhaps the BartPE program

 

[Mad]

Actually, would be better to run getdataback from bartPE...
BartPE is a free version of Windows PE, a win live cd, similar to linux live cds...
Its based on WinXP SP1 or better and Win2k3.
And since its free, you only need your own copy of winxp .

 

[_01_]

i had that problem once i used knoppix to copy important files to an other drive(or record to cd's) and then formated the hd

 

[eternal11]

i dont want to burn like 70 gigs of media :x

 

[_01_]

you could use a hd with fat32 fs to backup

 

[Peterson]

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