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Aloha,
I have an older Gateway G-6, 333 computer with XP Home, 2 Hard drives and
512 mem. I've had XP Home running on this computer with both of these Hard
Drives for a long time, needed to do a Fresh Install due to other problems.
Both drives were NTSF file structure and both worked just fine.
I have Partition Magic 8 and it shows the drive existing but says the file
structure is "Other Type 44" and there is NO drive letter associated with
this drive now. (it was partitioned as 2 drives when it was working fine)
Device Manager and Disk Management both show the drive, say its Healthy and
Working Properly but No drive letter. I've Uninstalled the second drive and
Windows XP finds it, installs it and says its working properly. Ha Ha!
I think I know what caused this but have NO idea how to fix it. When both
drives were working long ago I had Moved my "My Documents" to this second
drive and I figure when removing XP from the primary drive there might have
been some Link to "My Documents" that messed this all up, like some files
held on my C: Drive with XP linking it to D: well, thats my thoughts.
There is only a couple files on this second drive that I am not willing to
loose and darned if I didn't think to back them up thinking they were on a
totally separate drive and that being like backed up. Yes, with Hindsight now
Installed "I know", so here I am.
It seems that Partition Magic 8 could format this drive but I won't do that
until I've exhausted every possible method of recovery.
So, if any of you know of any Programs that might recover this or places to
search that would be great!
I know there are people that work on hard drives and charge to recover them,
if there aren't any Free ways and someone knows of this type of direction for
me please let me know.
Joyboy
Aloha,
I have an older Gateway G-6, 333 computer with XP Home, 2 Hard drives and
512 mem. I've had XP Home running on this computer with both of these Hard
Drives for a long time, needed to do a Fresh Install due to other problems.
Both drives were NTSF file structure and both worked just fine.
I have Partition Magic 8 and it shows the drive existing but says the file
structure is "Other Type 44" and there is NO drive letter associated with
this drive now. (it was partitioned as 2 drives when it was working fine)
Device Manager and Disk Management both show the drive, say its Healthy and
Working Properly but No drive letter. I've Uninstalled the second drive and
Windows XP finds it, installs it and says its working properly. Ha Ha!
I think I know what caused this but have NO idea how to fix it. When both
drives were working long ago I had Moved my "My Documents" to this second
drive and I figure when removing XP from the primary drive there might have
been some Link to "My Documents" that messed this all up, like some files
held on my C: Drive with XP linking it to D: well, thats my thoughts.
There is only a couple files on this second drive that I am not willing to
loose and darned if I didn't think to back them up thinking they were on a
totally separate drive and that being like backed up. Yes, with Hindsight now
Installed "I know", so here I am.
It seems that Partition Magic 8 could format this drive but I won't do that
until I've exhausted every possible method of recovery.
So, if any of you know of any Programs that might recover this or places to
search that would be great!
I know there are people that work on hard drives and charge to recover them,
if there aren't any Free ways and someone knows of this type of direction for
me please let me know.
Joyboy