Harddrive not recognized

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Heiner

I have a Maxtor 80GB harddisk as my second (D:) drive. I
just installed windows 2000 (formerly had Windows 98, then
transferred personal data from C: to D:, deleted C: and
installed W2k on C:). The drive D: letter appears in the
explorer, when I right click onit I get all the options,
but when I left click on it it says: "The disk in drive D:
is not formatted. Do you want to format?".

There is a lot of important data on D: how can I safely
get it back?

Thanks so much for a quick reply!
 
Heiner said:
I have a Maxtor 80GB harddisk as my second (D:) drive. I
just installed windows 2000 (formerly had Windows 98, then
transferred personal data from C: to D:, deleted C: and
installed W2k on C:). The drive D: letter appears in the
explorer, when I right click onit I get all the options,
but when I left click on it it says: "The disk in drive D:
is not formatted. Do you want to format?".

There is a lot of important data on D: how can I safely
get it back?

Thanks so much for a quick reply!
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- Was your drive D: a dynamic volume?
- When you boot your disk with a win98 boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com and run fdisk.exe, what type of
partition do you see for your 80 GByte disk?
- If you now run this command:
ntfsdos.exe /L:EF
are any NTFS drives loaded? If yes, do they show
any data? ntfsdos.exe is freely available at
www.sysinternals.com.
 
Thanks for taking the time!! I'm not there yet. Here are
answers to your questions:
1) I don't bellieve it was a dynamic volume.
2)It shows 'Volume in drive D: is MS-RAMDRIVE'
3) 'No NTFS drives recognized'.

I saw under windows that I have the option to share the
drive. Should I try to do that and then suck the data into
another computer? Do you have ideas what I can do? I need
this data on D:

Thanks again for your help!
 
Just tried the sharing: I get an error message: 'The
volume des not contain a recognized file system. Please
make sure that all required file system dirvers are loaded
and that the volume is not corrupted.' J just re-installed
the driver (windows found them on the web) but it didn't
help. How can I determine if it is corrupted and if it is,
how do I correct that (hopefully)?

Thx!
 
Ignore the "MS-RAMDRIVE" bit - it is, as its name says,
a RAM drive that was created by your boot disk. It is not
a physical disk.

It appears that the partition for drive D: got currupted or
deleted. Here are some tools that may help you to get it
back:

http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz
www.acronis.com (RecoveryExpert)

If these tool can't deliver then you may have to consider this
unfortunate event as a reminder to back up all your essential
data at least weekly, preferably to a medium that you keep
well away from your PC. Hard disks are very cheap these days,
as is the cradle for a removable hard disk.
 
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