Drives Disappeared

[bluerabbit]

I had my hard drive partioned into 4 sections
C:,D:,E:,F:

I was getting error messages saying dirve E: was full, so I copy lots of data from E to D. The system seemed to crash during the copy process which meant I had to reset the machine. Upon restart I got the scandisk thing come up. I cancelled this half way through (dont ask why) and when the machine started I have lost drives E and F.

They dont show up in My Computer, if I go into DOS mode and run FDISK they dont appear there. Is there anyway to get them back or at least access the data.

Cheers

 

[edfair]

D, E, and F are not primary partitions, they are logical partitions on an extended partition. Fdisk should show a primary and an extended, then ask if you want to see the logical breakdown.
You could try scandisk again and let it complete. You could also try scandisk from DOS. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[bugeyesbob]

Absolutely. Put simply the reason why the drives do not show up in My Computer is because they havent been partitioned/formatted correctly. Here is a link explaining Fdisk in more detail

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/8/67.ASP

However Fdisking will wipe all data clean off. Using Powerquests "Partition Magic" is not as destructive but not knowing how far drives d e f were scandisked etc before the errors then this may or may not work. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.