Second HD not accessible

[Mezzzo]

Hi

I have a strange problem with my second hard drive D.
Yesterday I had no problem accessing the data on the
D. Today I can`t access the data and a error message
indicates that the drive isn`t formatted. I am wondering
if anyone has a answer to this problem. I use scan disk
and also a software app Daemon-Tools. I`m wondering
if one or both of these apps could be casing a problem.

Thanks

 

[wolluf]

Operating system? Filestore type? Have you actually done anything (like change hardware/software? - what does Daemon Tools do? Have you run that since it worked).

If its fat32, can you access the drive booting from 98 boot floppy?

 

[Mezzzo]

Operating system? Filestore type? Have you actually done anything (like change hardware/software? - what does Daemon Tools do? Have you run that since it worked).
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Windoze XP Pro, NTFS.
No changes have been made.
The Daemon tool is a virtual drive system to deal with
iso files. I deleted the program as a test. The deletion
didn`t have any affect.
I had this problem becfore and fooled around with jumper
settings and the problem went away. I haven`t touched the
jumpers since but the problem has reappeared.
I also tested the drive with Maxtor HD utility. The software recognized the drive. I`m still uncertain what
the cause of the problem is.

 

[soaplover]

The reason probably is that at bootup windows don't mount the drive .Why ?

//Regards Soaplover

 

[wolluf]

Some suggestions:-

1. Disconnect slave & boot with just master. Disconnect both drives. Check jumpers for both drives are correct (eg, that if master has 2 master settings, one with, one without slave, correct one is set. Check IDE cable is intact & firmly connected when you reconnect. Reconnect both drives, and see if XP sees filestore now (is it a primary or extended partition)?

2. You could you a tool that can read ntfs to see if disk data is ok (eg, ntfsdos from

http://www.sysinternals.com

or

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/).

3. Could try putting slave on other IDE channel as master (swap CD/DVD around or temporarily disconnect).

 

[Mezzzo]

Hi

This is amazing. The problem cured itself. I didn`t
do anything that I`m aware of to resolve the problem.

Thanks for the help

 

[nato308]

You had better back up the data on the drive that you could not access, sounds like the drive is going out.

 

[williamashley03]

looks like I'm having the same eror

 

[williamashley03]

except that my error is fat32 not nfts although I found an extra 2gb on my primary drive somehow? I tried doing all the hardware stuffages changing around booted and I coudl access everything fine in dos I really don't want to reformat because of all the tuning I've done which could be the issue . Windows xp autmatically perofrms a scandisk intellegently I it doens't check f: but it does check c:

the next thing I am going to try is reasigning and rebooting rather then just reasigning and see if it is some code that is exclusive to f: other then that I'm not sure what to do other then reinstall the os cause I'm pretty certain it is the os.. oddly there was a harddrive failure of another hd in the house around the same time..