My first post! I have been reading several threads, and have been pleased at the good spirit among the "posters." I hope you can help me!
I have a Maxtor parallel ATA hard drive, w/ two partitions. It has worked fine for a couple of yrs. I keep DATA on one partition (D. Yesterday I could not access any data on D:. C: drive works fine. When I go to Disk Management, it says D: is "healthy" and active; however, when I go looking for data there, it says, "drive not formatted; do you want to format?"
In Computer Management window there is nothing under "File System" for D:, while C: says "NTFS." It says the capacity is 112 gig/ with 78 gig free.
Is it possible for just one partition to be faulty?
How can I find out if my data on D: are lost?
Is it possible to recover the data?
Phil
I have a Maxtor parallel ATA hard drive, w/ two partitions. It has worked fine for a couple of yrs. I keep DATA on one partition (D. Yesterday I could not access any data on D:. C: drive works fine. When I go to Disk Management, it says D: is "healthy" and active; however, when I go looking for data there, it says, "drive not formatted; do you want to format?"
In Computer Management window there is nothing under "File System" for D:, while C: says "NTFS." It says the capacity is 112 gig/ with 78 gig free.
Is it possible for just one partition to be faulty?
How can I find out if my data on D: are lost?
Is it possible to recover the data?
Phil