Hard Drive Disappearance after format

Serbian

Hey,

I have 2 hard drives installed on my computer. I recently had to format my comp and it now seems that the second hard drive has disappeared from the list of drives installed. I can see it on the hardware profile, but it is not listed as drive D (like it used to be)

I opened up Disk Management in XP and it shows the disk as a virtual drive, but it says it is unreadable. Anyone have any idea how I could mount this drive, preferably without having to format it. I backed up all my important files onto it before I formatted thinking the second drive would be okay :rolleyes:

Thanks a lot!

Serb

SickBoy

I had a very similar issue to this a few days ago. I had to reload XP and when my D & E drives didn't show up I went into disk manager expecting to see them as foreign drives and a simple import should resolve it but no, the drives showed up as unreadable.
After farting about for a long! time I remembered the volumes were created under XP SP1a and I upgraded the SP and low and behold the drives showed up in disk manager as foreign and a simple right click followed by import resolved my dilemma.
Hope this works for you.

Serbian

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SickBoy

It's a strange one alright.
Out of curiosity, was your unreadable drive a basic or dynamic disk?
Mine was dynamic...

Serbian

It was dynamic too. After I installed SP1 it just appeared as normal, I didn't even need to remount it or anything in Disk Management.

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