HELP! LOST FILES

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I had a backup drive installed. And before I started the Start Up
Recovery Disc on my computer, I moved all of my files to this backup
drive thinking that I would have them after I recovered factory programs
on my computer. To my utter surprise, the backup drive does not show up
when i open My Computer and look under the Hard Drive section. HELP!
What should I do? Is there any way at all possible to recover my backup
drive or reverse the recovery process? THANK YOU!

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R-click "My Computer"
Select "Manage"
Open "Disk Management"
Find your second hard drive, and "Mount" the disk

steve

"Linda NGuyen" <xxlinneyxx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I had a backup drive installed. And before I started the Start Up Recovery
>Disc on my computer, I moved all of my files to this backup drive thinking
>that I would have them after I recovered factory programs on my computer.
>To my utter surprise, the backup drive does not show up when i open My
>Computer and look under the Hard Drive section. HELP! What should I do?
>Is there any way at all possible to recover my backup drive or reverse the
>recovery process? THANK YOU!
>

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In addition, the drive may need to be added to the mbr, these can do that:

testdisk www.cgsecurity.org
mbrwork www.terabyteunlimited.com

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"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote in message
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> You may need to take ownership of the drive.
> http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership
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> Ron Sommer
>
> "Linda NGuyen" <xxlinneyxx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:42C764B4.7000704@yahoo.com...
>>I had a backup drive installed. And before I started the Start Up
>>Recovery Disc on my computer, I moved all of my files to this backup drive
>>thinking that I would have them after I recovered factory programs on my
>>computer. To my utter surprise, the backup drive does not show up when i
>>open My Computer and look under the Hard Drive section. HELP! What should
>>I do? Is there any way at all possible to recover my backup drive or
>>reverse the recovery process? THANK YOU!
>>
>
>

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Linda NGuyen wrote:
> I had a backup drive installed. And before I started the Start Up
> Recovery Disc on my computer, I moved all of my files to this backup
> drive thinking that I would have them after I recovered factory programs
> on my computer. To my utter surprise, the backup drive does not show up
> when i open My Computer and look under the Hard Drive section. HELP!
> What should I do? Is there any way at all possible to recover my backup
> drive or reverse the recovery process? THANK YOU!
>

NO NEED TO REVERSE THE RECOVERY PROCESS, JUST GOTO
HTTP://WWW.DRIVERGUIDE.COM AND DWNLA AND RE-INSTALL THE DRIVERS FOR YOUR
BACKUP DRIVE.

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Robert Gething wrote:

> Linda NGuyen wrote:
>> I had a backup drive installed. And before I started the Start Up
>> Recovery Disc on my computer, I moved all of my files to this backup
>> drive thinking that I would have them after I recovered factory
>> programs
>> on my computer. To my utter surprise, the backup drive does not show
>> up
>> when i open My Computer and look under the Hard Drive section. HELP!
>> What should I do? Is there any way at all possible to recover my
>> backup
>> drive or reverse the recovery process? THANK YOU!
>>
>
> NO NEED TO REVERSE THE RECOVERY PROCESS, JUST GOTO
> HTTP://WWW.DRIVERGUIDE.COM AND DWNLA AND RE-INSTALL THE DRIVERS FOR
> YOUR BACKUP DRIVE.

Mr. Gething - Shouting doesn't make your bad advice good.

Linda - Please tell us exactly what kind of backup drive this is. Is it
an external or internal hard drive? If external, what
make/model/interface? If internal, does it show up in the BIOS? Do
*nothing* further with that particular drive until you determine what
has happened. Please detail what exactly you mean by "Recovery
Process".

Malke
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