Win2k HDD now says to format

[pc3957]

Hi,

I have a Win2k system with the drives partitioned as follows:

IDE0 (80GB)
E 80GB
IDE1 (160GB)
C 80GB
D 80GB

They are all NTFS drives. Everything worked fine until suddenly after Windows asked if I wanted to format my D drive when I tried to access it through my computer. I of course answered no. C and E work fine, but D is in an unformatted state. I cannot access my files or view them in any way. Everytime I try to access the drive, it says I need to format it first.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks.

 

[Jomama46]

Shouldnt your primary IDE have the boot drive?
Can you access D from a DOS prompt? Maybe run scan from there or safemode because it sounds like it has lost its place in the partition table!

Jomama

 

[mattjurado]

What was on the drive? Do you have data backups?

Matt J.

Please always take the time to backup any and all data before performing any actions suggested for ANY problem, regardless of how minor a change it might seem. Also test the backup to make sure it is intact.

 

[pc3957]

I cannot access the data from dos. The syetem gives me the same messages as if it was not yet formatted. It's like the drive became unformatted.

I do have backups of most everything, but there is some things I would like to retreive.

Maybe I can boot it using a Linux rescue disk?

Anyone know of any freeware that might work?

Thanks.

 

[mattjurado]

That or you might mount it to a funcional linux based system. See what happens when you mount the drive.

Matt J.

Please always take the time to backup any and all data before performing any actions suggested for ANY problem, regardless of how minor a change it might seem. Also test the backup to make sure it is intact.