no volume on drive 1

[arthur1248]

I had a hard drive that just disappeared from my computer, found out the mb was bad, after 1 yr of finding an exact mobo for it, put it in pc, the device mgr shows its there and working properly, but it has no drive letter (or volume), tried disk management, but it doesnt show up, has no volume. How do I correct this, has info on disk I want to take off then reformat it.

 

[edfair]

What operating system? Try downloading a 98 boot disk and run fdisk and view partition table to see what you have. If no partition you need some recovery help.

Volume is a descriptor that isn't needed on some systems. But an active partition is required, in a way that the current operating system can use it.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[arthur1248]

The os is XP Home, everything shows it's there, just wont let me open it,and retrieve the data..it doesnt show up in the management progeram ,only on start-up,in device manager...does it show it exist. thanks

 

[edfair]

Sounds like the FAT or NTFS equivalent has been corrrupted.
Would still like to know the results of fdisk , view partitions, to see what it sees on the drive.

You may wish to do a google search for "getdataback". That is one I've used to recreate the allocation units so that the data becomes avaialble again.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Freestone]

Did you old installation have a program called GoBack installed?

 

[arthur1248]

old system did have goback,but was uninstalled when went to XP. edfair, it wont let me do anything to this drive, but give me properties, tried a free recovery program (ya free...not)after 19 hrs running, it showed me some of the files..(didnt let it finish)...now...next? ANnd by the way thanks...so far...

 

[Freestone]

I'm a little unclear as to the timing of the uninstall of GoBack. If the current drive in question was in an environment that had GoBack installed, then later introduced to an environment where GoBack is not longer installed, then the partitions on that drive won't be accesible, with symptoms as you describe.

 

[arthur1248]

freestone, the drive in question was installed at time of uninstall,also the drived shoed up perfectly till the mobo of the drive went out,after replacing with exact mobo(good),it shows it active on device mag, but with no drive letter to open,doesnt show up on my computer page.

 

[Freestone]

Thank you for clearing that up. I also thought your motherboard went bad and was replaced, not the drive's controller board.

 

[edfair]

But did fdisk show it with partitions, even non-dos partitions. the non-dos would be NTFS which would be understandable with XP.

It requires a valid partition, of whatever type, to decide to assign a drive letter.

The data recovery stuff tries to rebuild the file allocation based on the starting cluster as listed in the directory listing for each file.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[arthur1248]

Ok, edfair, if you could please give me instructions on how to run fdisk on this drive, I will try to see what happens...thanks

 

[edfair]

Boot with floppy . fdisk , 4 display partition info, [esc]

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Freestone]

XP's DISKPART program may help but be careful using it.

Open a command prompt (Start, Run..., cmd) then enter: diskpart you should receive some program info and a prompt DISKPART>

Assuming the drive in question is the 2nd drive in the system enter: select disk 1 you should receive feedback saying Disk 1 is now the selected disk

Enter list disk what info do you receive back?

Enter list partition Are any partitions listed?

If so, for each partition listed enter:

select partition n (where n is a partition number from the list partition command) you should receive feedback saying Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
enter detail partition of special interest will be the Type and Hidden details.

Post any information from this if you like. The information may help determine what partitions, if any, exist on the drive and the type.

 

[arthur1248]

under:
List disk disk0 online 37gb
*disk1 online 10gb

disk partition
unknown 10gb offset: 32kb

detail partition

type 44
hidden yes
active yes

*There is no volume associated with thus partition

This is the info that I received when doing the exact directions you gave me..does this help?

 

[Freestone]

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html

Partition type 44 is a GoBack partition. Apparently the changes made by GoBack to this drive were not removed during the uninstall you mentioned in an earlier post.

You can try reinstalling GoBack on your PC or configure the drive as Primary Master and follow these directions:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330140/en-us

 

[arthur1248]

freestone (MIS) ty,ty,ty..did I say thank you? did the last post,used it as primary drive and disengaged goback, put back as slave and sure enough, it came up with a drive letter, I then copied all files I wanted and then reformated . Thank you again, you did great...

 

[Freestone]

I'm am happy for you, and thank you for reporting back your success.