Gyn_Paul Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 My PC (win XP) decided this morning that it doesn't have one of the disks connected. Normally it shows up as 'Drive :I\ External disk ', but today? Nada.It's there in the bios, both as an auto and a manual detect, happily displaying the size, number of cylinders and heads etc, so I know it's spinning up properly.Equally from inside Windows it's listed in Hardware manager as working properly, similarly if I go into 'properties' / 'hardware' in one of the other drives, it's listed there (Maxtor) just like the others, it just won't appear on 'My Computer' so I can't seem to access it.I've tried disabling it and asking windows to re-install it, and it finds the actual hardware, and cheerfully re- 'enable's it, but it STILL won't show as an accessible drive....Help !paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Paul, have you tried the steps suggested in this page ?Danny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyn_Paul Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 Ah.. Thanks for that: I remember now, I'd started to install Suse on that drive and used Partition Magic to make a virtual drive for it. In the end I aborted the installation (and the partitioning, I thought) fearing I would lose the exisiting data on it. Now (thanks to that link I discover) it's reporting "unknown partition". Can I remove the partition without losing the data, do you think ?p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Ehm... dunno SorryDanny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I merged (not deleted) a partition using said program and it created a folder and put the contents of one of the partions into it and then placed it on the kept partioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyn_Paul Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 For one awful moment I thought Partition Magic was actually siting on the missing drive, but no. I seem to have loaded it on the 'recovery' drive (I really must get some reorganisation and system going!).....Stay tuned.... more at eleven. !pand later.... Working !! Thanks for the help I now have the full compliment of drive once more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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