Second hard drive lost after reinstalling Windows

docaural · 01-08-2007, 07:21 AM

I have 2 hard drives in my computer.One is C: and second was I: Lately I had to reinstall windows xp and after that windows cant find drive I: anymore.
All the reinstalling operations I did only on drive C:. I deleted all partitions on it and formatted it and reinstalled fresh copy of windows on it. I never touched drive I:, but anyway Drive I: is lost. I can see it with BIOS and with disk management tool what Windows has, But there is like no data on it. It has yellow triangle with "!" on it and that`s it. I backed up most of my data on to drive I: and now I cant get it out from there.
Can anybody help?: 4-dontkno

**linderman** · 01-08-2007, 10:19 AM

What happens with Win XP home edition when you add a hard drive and set-up the partition paramters and formatting within win xp; the salve drives geometry (set-up paramters) get writtent to the boot drive.

When you reformatted and re-instaleld windows your boot drive lost the slave's geometry.

You will need to restore this geometry, I have had great success using "Getdataback" for data recovery.

You can download the free version to verify the recovery program can "see" your drives contents. If the program can see your data, then you pay for a full version serial key code and complete the recovery process.

Be preapred however to recover the drives data to another drive; like your boot drive. Once the recovery has been completed and you have regained all your data onto a different hard drive then you may zero fill the drive & reformat the drive.

This pain the butt problem can be eliminated by settign up the drive with the hard drive makers free set-up software. Then when this approach is taken, it will write the slave drives geometry to the slave drive; instead of writitng that info to your boot drive.

dont hesitate to ask more questions as needed.

http://www.runtime.org/

docaural · 01-09-2007, 01:42 AM

Thanks Joe.

I got my I: drive back and everything was on it.

justin2108 · 12-31-2007, 06:54 PM

linderman saved the day again

Thx dude or i would deleted all my filles by formatting the HDD

You saved about 150 GB of important data

you are my savior

greetings,
justin from holland

01-08-2007, 07:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
docaural Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4 OS: win XP	Second hard drive lost after reinstalling Windows I have 2 hard drives in my computer.One is C: and second was I: Lately I had to reinstall windows xp and after that windows cant find drive I: anymore. All the reinstalling operations I did only on drive C:. I deleted all partitions on it and formatted it and reinstalled fresh copy of windows on it. I never touched drive I:, but anyway Drive I: is lost. I can see it with BIOS and with disk management tool what Windows has, But there is like no data on it. It has yellow triangle with "!" on it and that`s it. I backed up most of my data on to drive I: and now I cant get it out from there. Can anybody help?: 4-dontkno

01-08-2007, 10:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,429 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	What happens with Win XP home edition when you add a hard drive and set-up the partition paramters and formatting within win xp; the salve drives geometry (set-up paramters) get writtent to the boot drive. When you reformatted and re-instaleld windows your boot drive lost the slave's geometry. You will need to restore this geometry, I have had great success using "Getdataback" for data recovery. You can download the free version to verify the recovery program can "see" your drives contents. If the program can see your data, then you pay for a full version serial key code and complete the recovery process. Be preapred however to recover the drives data to another drive; like your boot drive. Once the recovery has been completed and you have regained all your data onto a different hard drive then you may zero fill the drive & reformat the drive. This pain the butt problem can be eliminated by settign up the drive with the hard drive makers free set-up software. Then when this approach is taken, it will write the slave drives geometry to the slave drive; instead of writitng that info to your boot drive. dont hesitate to ask more questions as needed. http://www.runtime.org/ __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

12-31-2007, 06:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
justin2108 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Re: Second hard drive lost after reinstalling Windows linderman saved the day again Thx dude or i would deleted all my filles by formatting the HDD You saved about 150 GB of important data you are my savior greetings, justin from holland

01-09-2007, 01:42 AM	#3 (permalink)
docaural Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4 OS: win XP	Thanks Joe. I got my I: drive back and everything was on it.