Hi,

I have a strange situation..

PC Info: AMD X2 4800+, 300gb Seagate SATA drive, 4 gb mem (2 sets dual
channel), XP Media Edition.

HD partitioned 4 drives (C & D - Fat32, E & F - NTFS)

My PC froze last week and I had to press (Ugh!) the reset button. After
it rebooted, it went into CHKDSK (which I expected), but it scanned my
D Drive first, then went to C, and froze at 30%. After a while I
finally reset it again and this time it scanned C: first and finished
and then stated that it couldn't check D:, because D: was not an XP drive.

My system starts (very, very slowly) and runs (very very slowly), and my
D: drive is listed, but not accessible (not a windows drive).

Now the weird (and Lucky) part....

I booted with a Win98se floppy and was able to get (using a great free
long filename utility) my data off the D: drive, which DOS was able to
display. I copied it to the C: drive for recovery off my network.


Now the Questions...

What can I do to get the D: drive to show back up in Windows and why can
I see the data in DOS but not in windows? Has anyone else ever had
something like this happen?

Thanks,
RJC

Rich, I would go to Seagate's website and get their Drive Diagnostics
tools. Give your
drive a good check.
"Rich" <rich.cooke@csea813.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a strange situation..
>
> PC Info: AMD X2 4800+, 300gb Seagate SATA drive, 4 gb mem (2 sets dual
> channel), XP Media Edition.
>
> HD partitioned 4 drives (C & D - Fat32, E & F - NTFS)
>
> My PC froze last week and I had to press (Ugh!) the reset button. After
> it rebooted, it went into CHKDSK (which I expected), but it scanned my D
> Drive first, then went to C, and froze at 30%. After a while I finally
> reset it again and this time it scanned C: first and finished and then
> stated that it couldn't check D:, because D: was not an XP drive.
>
> My system starts (very, very slowly) and runs (very very slowly), and my
> D: drive is listed, but not accessible (not a windows drive).
>
> Now the weird (and Lucky) part....
>
> I booted with a Win98se floppy and was able to get (using a great free
> long filename utility) my data off the D: drive, which DOS was able to
> display. I copied it to the C: drive for recovery off my network.
>
>
> Now the Questions...
>
> What can I do to get the D: drive to show back up in Windows and why can I
> see the data in DOS but not in windows? Has anyone else ever had
> something like this happen?
>
> Thanks,
> RJC