2nd hard drive not recognized

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i have been running a 80gb primary and 40gb secondary drives for one year
with no problem.yesterday i tried to open 2nd drive F i get message "disk
drive F is not formatted-do you want to format F now".i have used system
restore,updated and ran antivirus,adaware and spybot.Device manger says the
drive is there.CHKDSK utiity says it cannot find CHKDSK/F.thanks for any help
 
And what does Disk Management say about this drive?
I would run the hd makers bootable checking utility on this drive
WD uses SeaTools
 
Do not run Chkdsk if you need to salvage files on the disk! What you do
from here on might severely affect any data recovery efforts.

John
 
i have been running a 80gb primary and 40gb secondary drives for one
year with no problem.yesterday i tried to open 2nd drive F i get message
"disk drive F is not formatted-do you want to format F now".i have used
system restore,updated and ran antivirus,adaware and spybot.Device
manger says the drive is there.CHKDSK utiity says it cannot find
CHKDSK/F.thanks for any help
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Is the drive correctly listed in BIOS? If it is, then the problem is
probably not hardware related, but software, i.e. Windows.

I would download a repair/restore/backup LiveCD first, and try to backup
your data before trying anything else.


Stef
 
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