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My ordeal started with a forced shutdown of XP (I have to do this on
occasion). CHKDSK started up to check my drive N: (the only partition
in a 180GB WD drive), finished quickly and found no errors. However
now XP (Disk Management) thinks my N: drive is empty and has NO file
system. It was formatted as NTFS and was (and is) about 50% full.
The really fascinating thing is that all my disk utilities like
PartitionMagic 8 and Active Partition Recovery do not see any errors
whatsoever - and see the file system as NTFS.
I can use an undelete utility to recover my data across my network,
format the drive and restore everything but it will take the entire
day. But is there something I can do within XP to convince it that the
drive has an NTFS file system??
One implicating factor might be that I recently changed this partition
to 64K file clusters from 4K (it's used primarily for video storage).
Although everything seemed fine for a day, could this file cluster
change have messed up XP somehow?
My ordeal started with a forced shutdown of XP (I have to do this on
occasion). CHKDSK started up to check my drive N: (the only partition
in a 180GB WD drive), finished quickly and found no errors. However
now XP (Disk Management) thinks my N: drive is empty and has NO file
system. It was formatted as NTFS and was (and is) about 50% full.
The really fascinating thing is that all my disk utilities like
PartitionMagic 8 and Active Partition Recovery do not see any errors
whatsoever - and see the file system as NTFS.
I can use an undelete utility to recover my data across my network,
format the drive and restore everything but it will take the entire
day. But is there something I can do within XP to convince it that the
drive has an NTFS file system??
One implicating factor might be that I recently changed this partition
to 64K file clusters from 4K (it's used primarily for video storage).
Although everything seemed fine for a day, could this file cluster
change have messed up XP somehow?