My computer has two storage drives; C drive (an SSD) and E drive (an HDD). When I logged on this morning I received the message that 'you have been logged on to a temporary account,' and when I looked in my computer my E drive was not displayed. My C drive contains the program files (and my windows installation, fortunately) but my E drive contained documents, downloads etc, so it's a bit of a pain to lose it. My OS is Windows 7, if that helps.
Things I've tried/discovered so far:
When I open my computer, only C & D drives are displayed.
When I open the device manager, my HDD is displayed, and the status is given as: 'This device is working properly.' Trying the automatic driver update stated that the drivers are up to date. In the 'volumes' tab, all of the quantities are blank.
I downloaded the 'Active File Recovery for Windows' program, which says that my HDD has a total size of 128GB (odd, seeing as it's a 1TB drive), and under the 'Not Initialised' heading says: 'MBR needs to be fixed.' I've found a couple of sites (including the official Microsoft one) offering a means of fixing this using the Windows 7 disk, but unfortunately I won't have access to that until Easter.
I've tried using regedit to fix the logging in as a temporary profile, as detailed on this site, but it hasn't worked - it just renames the correct folder as the backup, and creates a new one with ProfileImagePath C:\User\Temp.
I also tried a system restore to before the problem occurred, but it seems that only detected (and affected) C drive.
So is there anything else I should try, or is my hard drive irreparably stuffed up? I don't really care about the data on it, as I've only been using the computer for a few months, but it would be nice if I could get the drive working again (although it's still under warranty if I can't).
Things I've tried/discovered so far:
When I open my computer, only C & D drives are displayed.
When I open the device manager, my HDD is displayed, and the status is given as: 'This device is working properly.' Trying the automatic driver update stated that the drivers are up to date. In the 'volumes' tab, all of the quantities are blank.
I downloaded the 'Active File Recovery for Windows' program, which says that my HDD has a total size of 128GB (odd, seeing as it's a 1TB drive), and under the 'Not Initialised' heading says: 'MBR needs to be fixed.' I've found a couple of sites (including the official Microsoft one) offering a means of fixing this using the Windows 7 disk, but unfortunately I won't have access to that until Easter.
I've tried using regedit to fix the logging in as a temporary profile, as detailed on this site, but it hasn't worked - it just renames the correct folder as the backup, and creates a new one with ProfileImagePath C:\User\Temp.
I also tried a system restore to before the problem occurred, but it seems that only detected (and affected) C drive.
So is there anything else I should try, or is my hard drive irreparably stuffed up? I don't really care about the data on it, as I've only been using the computer for a few months, but it would be nice if I could get the drive working again (although it's still under warranty if I can't).
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