[pchelpers] Re: Invisible drive headache

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 11:54:09 PM, you wrote:
> 
> JD> That's the irony of it. I never attempted to hide drives that way
> JD> before. The installation of XP is a couple of weeks old. There has
> JD> been no playing with registry apart from running registry mechanic
> JD> to repair it. Regedit says there are no "NoDrives" values in the
> JD> registry.
> 
> There is no need to mess with this; the TweakUI PowerToy allows you to
> hide drives this way, as I recall, and is almost certainly the method
> that was used ... if this were the case, which it's not, since it's
> not visible on YOUR computer either. It must be YOUR registry which
> has been modified to hide the drive, which I doubt that you've done,
> therefore it must be a problem with the partition on the drive.
> 
> 
> JD> The only other thought I can offer is that windows 2000 server may
> JD> have encrypted the disk, which means I can only back it up by
> JD> running it on the original machine (probably). If there is a
> JD> chance to do what you suggest, I will.
> 
> If you encrypted an entire partition, you'd still be able to see all
> of the files (in the root, at least), you just wouldn't be able to
> open them.
> 
This does not bode well for file recovery, but it was inevitable in a 
drive of this age.

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