hard drive not recognized 2

[kanakavalli27]

I backed up data from C-Drive to D-drive and then reloaded Windows XP prof (due to corrupt Dlls). Now Drive C is OK. Bios shows both the drives and Disk management snap-in shows both the drives. However it has NO VOLUME or Drive letter. I contacted Maxtor for solution to no avail! I have Pentium-4, 2.2 Ghz with 1 GB memory. Is there a way to access the D-drive without resorting to some data recovery software? If not what software is good for recovering data from Drive-D?

 

[Freestone]

Did you have a program called GoBack installed prior to your reinstall of XP? If so, reinstall it.

Others have reported very favorably on the data recovery program GetDataBack at

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

 

[firewolfrl]

is the partition FAT32 or NTFS?

I use Winternals disk commander
though
Spinrite works very good too
it sounds as though the MBR was corrupted