Slave drive problem

**kleefarr** · March 31st, 2008, 10:08 AM

Hi,

I hope everyone is well, it's been a while.

I have a problem with a slave drive.
Computer has been working fine for the last few weeks after upgrading the hard drives to Master: 80G Maxtor Slave: 320G Maxtor.
The slave was divided into 2 partitions and has been fine up until a few minutes ago.

Basic System Info

The slave is seen in CMOS

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1206975353

Also in Disk Management (but not as previously setup)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1206975473

But is not seen My Computer

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...g?t=1206975549

EnableBigLba is still enabled

What I did prior to this problem was, remove the Master drive and replaced with another to setup another copy of my OS on for emergency purposes. When I replaced the original 80G Maxtor Master the slave was missing although plugged in.

Why would it be missing? Any chance of getting it back as was?
There is stuff on there, not important stuff but could do with not having to replace it all again.

Regards,

Kevin

**Ferrit** · March 31st, 2008, 11:01 AM

Well from those photo's your going to need some software to recover anything you want off the 320 gig.
Somehow the partitions have been removed it seems like and thats why it is seen in cmos and disk management and not in my computer. To be seen in my computer you need a partition and it needs to be formatted.

**kleefarr** · March 31st, 2008, 11:14 AM

Thanks for the reply Ferrit.

Strange how the partitions disappeared as the only thing that was changed was the master drive.

Looking at the Disk Management reading, it is reported as 298GBs. Where has the other 22GBs gone I wonder?

Any good free hard drive recovery programs about? I have Partition Magic 7.0 but it only gives options to create or undelete. Should I try the undelete option?

Kevin

**geeksRus** · April 6th, 2008, 08:11 PM

a little utility called Test Disk will find deleted partitions and reewrite the info to the drive. presto...partitions and all data is restored. be sure and read the Docs that come with it. it isnt hard to use but you have to use reasonable caution.

**kleefarr** · April 10th, 2008, 05:38 AM

Thanks for the help guys.

I decided that I would reformat the disk on the master IDE on it's own. Installed W2k and has been running alright for a few days up until now.

I'm getting freezing and locking and have noticed that the MSI PCAlert4 is showing that my +5v rail is up and down like a yoyo. Anything from 4.68v upto 5.03v within a fews seconds.

Anyone have idea what this could indicate? Current PSU Corsair TX750W Only 6 months old.

Kevin