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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: blaa on January 08, 2008, 02:35:07 PM
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So yeah, had 2 partitions earlier - C and E. Awhile ago (cant even when and after what) E dissapeared. Since there were no important files and I really didnt care I let it go. Now because of reasons unknown to me I got some programs, which check the hardware I have. The program listed 2 partitions (even the 1 I couldnt access) so now im interested to recover it.
I tried some googleing and found some programs, some just scanned for files in the folder, some did their best to recover it, but in the end they failed - gave an error message "something not found" or whatever.
So anyone knows what might have caused this? Maybe I unmarked some important spot when I was on a certain mood to unmark things I really dont know?
Another thing is that I have 2 cd drives. The 1 what is able to write CDs works - well it does read audio cds and documnets, but dont do what I would expect from it - WRITE anything. Ive tried to change my usual wriitng program, but the result stayed the same - it said "disk not found".
3 donuts to whoever helps me.
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Maybe one of your cd rom drives has the same drive letter as your missing hdd partition?
That might be something to check out in Disk Management
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First, for the CD drives, check to see if DLA (Drive Letter Access) is enabled. Open up My Computer and right-click on the CD drive and select Properties. Go to the last tab ("Recording") and it should look like this:
(http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/9934/dlaay4.jpg)
For the Other issue, open up Disk Management. Right-click on My Computer and select "Manage" then "Disk Management" on the left hand side. Get a screenie of that and post it here. Mine looks like this:
(http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1672/manageen9.jpg)
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http://scythe.planet.ee/diskmanagement.jpg
And this is some disk management program (or whatever, right?):
http://scythe.planet.ee/raid.jpg
The right box (logical..) appeared when i clicked on top middle icon and the left box appeared when i clicked one of the two lower icons. Dunno if it clears something.
http://scythe.planet.ee/E.jpg
Guess that answers the first task you gave me :p
windows 2000
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http://scythe.planet.ee/E.jpg
Guess that answers the first task you gave me :p
Make sure you have the correct drivers.
http://scythe.planet.ee/diskmanagement.jpg
And this is some disk management program (or whatever, right?):
http://scythe.planet.ee/raid.jpg
The right box (logical..) appeared when i clicked on top middle icon and the left box appeared when i clicked one of the two lower icons. Dunno if it clears something.
The second one looks like a RAID configuration program. Sorry but I don't have any experience with RAID. But according to windows, that other partition doesn't exist. This could be due to some RAID settings, however.
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just to make sure - the 57gb one is missing and the other works.
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It appears that the raid is disabled. When you reboot your pc do you get any raid errors?
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No, I dont. Any way I can enable it?
If I remember correctly I might have done something when I had problems with my power supply, I went to some menu when windows was booting (I clicked f1 or whatnot when it told me and then I got into some setup [bios or something else, cant remember]), and i might have changed something.
I am not the best customer for the Tech support, eh :d
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maybe this helps to understand *something*
http://scythe.planet.ee/raidhistory.jpg
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yup, your hard drive in the raid failed. I would just right that one off.
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So I cant do anything? :(
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Looks like it ran for 4 years until it failed May of last year.
You *might* try to connect it to a regular ide port and see if you can read anything off of it but I doubt it.
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With raid 0, you're pretty much screwed if any disk fails.