Right click my computer and select manage. Select disk management. See if the drive shows up. If it does right click it and see if it gives you any options like convert foreign disk or convert to dynamic...anything but format unless you want to lose your data. Sometimes when I connect internal sata drives from other systems to retrieve files the disks need to be converted from a 'foreign disk'
Mike On Jan 26, 2008 5:16 PM, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A week or more ago, I noticed that the desktop icon for internal drive F > was missing. I reinstalled the shortcut using My Computer (Windows XP > SP 2). > > Now trying to access the drive F, I get this message from Windows: "The > disk drive in F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" > > I have 5 hard drives: 2 internal (including F), three external. Here's > what Belarc Advisor says: > > > DMI WD5000AAKB-0_UKA IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- > > drive 0 > > Maxtor 6 L200P0 USB Device [Hard drive] (203.92 GB) -- drive 3 > > Maxtor 6Y120M0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 2, s/n Y3KTK99E, rev > > YAR51EW0, SMART <http://www.belarc.com/smart.html> Status: Healthy > > WD 4000YS External USB Device [Hard drive] (400.09 GB) -- drive 4 > > WDC WD1200JD-75FYB0 [Hard drive] (120.00 GB) -- drive 1 > The amounts of GBs doesn't seem right to me in the above. Here's what I > think that I have: > > drive C (boot drive, internal): 120 GB > drive F: can't remember, probably 160 GB (My Computer reports 0 bytes, > internal) > drive X: 500 GB > drive Y: 400 GB > drive Z: thought it was 400 GB, but My Computer reports it as 200 GB. > > Is all my data on drive F destroyed? I have a backup of drive F but it > is from 2007 November. I can't remember what data is on drive F. > Should I reformat and restore the backup? Or is it possible that drive > F is being reported as unformatted when it really is not? What to do? > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC > http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
