[pchelpers] Re: Hard Drive Readability

something like that happend to me before. My case is probably different. But 
what helped me to get to my files again - I went in to safe mode and went and 
re-claimed ownership of the files and folders, at the file sharing option.
  Trudy 
   
    
Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
  
Hi Susan,

Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 8:51:10 PM, you wrote:

S> It was a secondary drive, not bootable.

Non-bootable drives do not have to be as visible. Do you recall if you
formatted it in any special way, or some other tinkering? Some time
ago, I discovered that I'd formatted one of my drives as Dynamic,
which apparently slows it down noticeably. If you do something like
create a mount point (something else that I did once), then it won't
necessarily have a drive letter, although it shouldn't show up as
unallocated.

Have you checked yet to see if it still works in the Win2K system? If
it does, John's suggestion #1 (in the message that he sent while I was
typing this) probably doesn't apply. Check to see how it's set up on
the Win2K system to see if there's anything unusual, and see John's
suggestion #2.

If all else fails, and if it works ok in the Win2K system, you might
try to copy the data off (if you have room) and rebuild the partition.
I see that John's suggestion #3 is similar.

I don't recall what happens with encryption (as John mentions in his
first reply), but probably the system should at least recognize that
there's a partition.

If Spinrite seems to be indicated, and if you have it and if it does
work (or if SMART indicates a problem), then you should replace the
drive as soon as you pull the data off, as indicated by the hard drive
failure research articles that Jackie posted links for on the 10th.

-- 
Scott.



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