Critical - NT partitions went POOF!!

[NumberFive]

It seems that my NT patrition for E: has disappeared. I am desperately searching for a way to rescue this data...<br>
there are no rescue disks, and Norton Utilities has registered a SMART failure.<br>
Help!<br>
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#5<br>

 

[snicks2]

Have you looked in Disk Administrator? I've had an instance where the partition loses its drive assignment because of a disabled service.

 

[JoeB]

Need more information. How many hard drives? what partitions on each hard drive? , etc... Can you not see drive e in My computer?

 

[Zelandakh]

How many other partitions do you have - has the letter just changed and freaked you out? Done anything to the server recently (including rebooting)?

 

[NumberFive]

Okee, here goes...<br>
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Drives: C, D, E, F (2gb partitions on 8gb drive.)<br>
come in in AM, with

 

[Zelandakh]

oops, it didn't get posted correctly! Try again.

 

[FredWagner]

Since the missing partition is E:, can you still see F:, or is it gone also? Have you recently installed or tweaked a Novell client? What letter is it set to assign the first network drive to? If E or F, that might be your problem, make the first network drive G: and see if your lost one reappears.... <p>Fred Wagner<br><a href=mailto:frwagne@ci.long-beach.ca.us>frwagne@ci.long-beach.ca.us</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[agent099]

Snicks2, Do you know what service was disabled? I'm having a similar problem on my sql server. I've looked at the services, anything automatic started perfectly. There's only one service set to disabled. just curious, please reply.

 

[snicks2]

It is actually a device driver and not a service. Here is what I was referring to... Go to Control Panel, Devices and find the device driver of the drive in question. Change status from Boot to System.