Format C [HD] and D&E gone missing

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Format C [HD] and D&E gone missing
Had to rebuild my PC.
I have 2 HD [1 is 20GB & 1 partition [C:] the other [1 is 40GB & 2
partitions [D & E] Well format went OK I thought??? Have reinstalled OS
Win Millenium. Seems fine!
BIG PROBLEM is my D& E are gone missing.
PC named my burner D: and CDROM E:
So I only have C:,D:,E: and 40 GB of missing data.
ANy input would be greatly appreciated. Help!!!!. Did backup most of my
stuff but not all of it.
TIA
Jan
 
Format C [HD] and D&E gone missing
Had to rebuild my PC.
I have 2 HD [1 is 20GB & 1 partition [C:] the other [1 is 40GB & 2
partitions [D & E] Well format went OK I thought??? Have reinstalled OS
Win Millenium. Seems fine!
BIG PROBLEM is my D& E are gone missing.
PC named my burner D: and CDROM E:
So I only have C:,D:,E: and 40 GB of missing data.
ANy input would be greatly appreciated. Help!!!!. Did backup most of my
stuff but not all of it.
TIA
Jan
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Was your C-drive by any chance formatted in NTFS and your D or E drive
FAT32? In that case when you boot in DOS, your C-drive isn't
recognized, and DOS renames your first FAT-partition to C. Did you do
a dir c: before you formatted, so you know you formatted the right
disk?
 
you did no partitioning of the drive? and only 'c' was formatted? what does
fdisk say about the drive? 1 2 or 3 partitions?
 
Thanks Fredrik,
Unsure @ NTFS and/or Fat32. My bios is showing I have a primary master
of 20GB and a primary slave of 40 GB but that is the only place it is
showing.
I did not do a dir c: but am quite certain I got the right drive my NEW
C: is showing up as 19 GB in my computer.
ANy more ideas?
Thanks again,
JAn

Had to rebuild my PC.
I have 2 HD [1 is 20GB & 1 partition [C:] the other [1 is 40GB & 2
partitions [D & E] Well format went OK I thought??? Have reinstalled OS
Win Millenium. Seems fine!
BIG PROBLEM is my D& E are gone missing.
PC named my burner D: and CDROM E:
So I only have C:,D:,E: and 40 GB of missing data.
ANy input would be greatly appreciated. Help!!!!. Did backup most of my
stuff but not all of it.
TIA
Jan
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Was your C-drive by any chance formatted in NTFS and your D or E drive
FAT32? In that case when you boot in DOS, your C-drive isn't
recognized, and DOS renames your first FAT-partition to C. Did you do
a dir c: before you formatted, so you know you formatted the right
disk?
Click to expand...
 
he installed millinium (ME) so NTFS is out or at least maybe vise versa,
what operating system was loaded prior?

Fredrik said:
Format C [HD] and D&E gone missing
Had to rebuild my PC.
I have 2 HD [1 is 20GB & 1 partition [C:] the other [1 is 40GB & 2
partitions [D & E] Well format went OK I thought??? Have reinstalled OS
Win Millenium. Seems fine!
BIG PROBLEM is my D& E are gone missing.
PC named my burner D: and CDROM E:
So I only have C:,D:,E: and 40 GB of missing data.
ANy input would be greatly appreciated. Help!!!!. Did backup most of my
stuff but not all of it.
TIA
Jan
Click to expand...

Was your C-drive by any chance formatted in NTFS and your D or E drive
FAT32? In that case when you boot in DOS, your C-drive isn't
recognized, and DOS renames your first FAT-partition to C. Did you do
a dir c: before you formatted, so you know you formatted the right
disk?
Click to expand...
 
It was the same one ME
TIA
JAn
he installed millinium (ME) so NTFS is out or at least maybe vise versa,
what operating system was loaded prior?

Format C [HD] and D&E gone missing
Had to rebuild my PC.
I have 2 HD [1 is 20GB & 1 partition [C:] the other [1 is 40GB & 2
partitions [D & E] Well format went OK I thought??? Have reinstalled OS
Win Millenium. Seems fine!
BIG PROBLEM is my D& E are gone missing.
PC named my burner D: and CDROM E:
So I only have C:,D:,E: and 40 GB of missing data.
ANy input would be greatly appreciated. Help!!!!. Did backup most of my
stuff but not all of it.
TIA
Jan
Click to expand...

Was your C-drive by any chance formatted in NTFS and your D or E drive
FAT32? In that case when you boot in DOS, your C-drive isn't
recognized, and DOS renames your first FAT-partition to C. Did you do
a dir c: before you formatted, so you know you formatted the right
disk?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Jan said:
Format C [HD] and D&E gone missing
Had to rebuild my PC.
I have 2 HD [1 is 20GB & 1 partition [C:] the other [1 is 40GB & 2
partitions [D & E] Well format went OK I thought??? Have reinstalled OS
Win Millenium. Seems fine!
BIG PROBLEM is my D& E are gone missing.
PC named my burner D: and CDROM E:
So I only have C:,D:,E: and 40 GB of missing data.
ANy input would be greatly appreciated. Help!!!!. Did backup most of my
stuff but not all of it.
Click to expand...

If you reboot to a DOS prompt are those 2 partitions (D & E) available
to you? Can you copy files on to them, set up directories, etc? If you
do:

Dir on each drive (d or E) is it able to tell you whats there and the
amount of space available?
 
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