Formatted my C drive, and put on windows. My D drive(20gigs) is no where 2b found but it is in Device Manager.

Question

I reformatted my hard drive called C. I then put windows XP back on it. I also have another hard drive that used to be called "D" but after I formatted my C hard drive, D was no where to be found. Instead my CD-ROM took the place of it.
I checked in "My Computer"- there is only "C" BUT device manager and system info both recognize that there are two hard drives Maxtor 2BO....*(My old D(20gig)) and Maxtor 6YO..... (My C)I even tried running a Maxtor Diagnostic Boot up Floppy, and what do you know, according to this ******* disc both hard drives are there and working fine and dandy. and yes i reformatted my C twice over after this shpeel. I have no way of accessing this hard drive becuase in "My Computer", there is no other hard drive but C. This is outrageous becuase my whole life is stored on that other drive. HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPP! PLEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Have you tried searching for your files by name?

Answer 2

Wow - so many things possible here.

Go to your admin tools in control panel, and select computer management then storage and disk management.

This should list all your physical drives as well as virtual drives. If you're still only seeing your C: physical drive, then there is definitely something amiss...

If both drives are present and windows (curse that it is) is seeing multiple physical drives, try running diags on it... and read through what info windows has on the drive.

It may be something as simple as a jumper setting on the back of the drive (I've had many drives disappear over cabling or jumpers.)

I wish you luck - worst case, if you really have a lot of info on the drive... pull the drive and stuff it in an external caddy with USB or 1394 connections... boot system and you can retreive your data... had to do that in the past for customers.

-dh

Answer 3

circulate to overall performance and maintenance in cotrol panel. click on Admistrative kit then click onComputer administration. Then choose disk administration. Initialize the force and partion the force. Then format the force assign the force letter and start up the ameliorations.

Answer 4

but no devive