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data disappearance?

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aricat

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Nov 28, 2004
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Hello - ran into a problem with my hd and am in need of some assistance (unfortunately not very hardware-minded)

Ran a defrag through Norton on my 200 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus over the holiday. Came home to discover that my system had frozen in the middle of the defrag. After I rebooted, the drive reverted to the generic Local Disk label and showed as empty (drive had approx 170 GB stored...) Tried a rollback which did not change anything. Under System Restore, the correct drive label shows and the drive is listed as "offline". Under Disk Management and through the BIOS however, the drive shows as active and online.

Misc. Info:
OS - Windows XP
Proc - P4
Board - MSI Intel 865 PE Neo
ATA drive (secondary IDE slave)
4 hd's total including this one

If anyone has any ideas / suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

aricat
 
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