Lost slave drive

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David

Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the
slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When
investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy
(Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT.

TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!!

David
 
David said:
Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the
slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When
investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy
(Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT.

TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!!

David
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It's nice to know that the C: drive is FAT but you did not
report what file system the missing disk uses. Did you assign
a drive letter to the partition on the missing disk?
 
David said:
Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the
slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When
investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy
(Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT.

TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!!

David
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If the drive has no letter assigned to it...
see if you can do so from disk management
 
It's nice to know that the C: drive is FAT but you did not
report what file system the missing disk uses. Did you assign
a drive letter to the partition on the missing disk?
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The slave is F: and I believe it was FAT also.
 
David said:
The slave is F: and I believe it was FAT also.
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The Disk Manager shows you what file system a given partition
has. If you can see no file system then it may be lost. I would
use a recovery program, e.g. Acronis Recovery Expert.
 
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