partitions

[blaa]

 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.

[KnacK]

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

[Zorchenhimer]

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:



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:

[blaa]

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

[Zorchenhimer]

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.

[blaa]

just to make sure - the 57gb one is missing and the other works.

[KnacK]

It appears that the raid is disabled.  When you reboot your pc do you get any raid errors?

[blaa]

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

[blaa]

maybe this helps to understand *something*
http://scythe.planet.ee/raidhistory.jpg

[KnacK]

yup, your hard drive in the raid failed.  I would just right that one off.

[blaa]

 So I cant do anything?

[KnacK]

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.

[jitspoe]

With raid 0, you're pretty much screwed if any disk fails.