My current setup involves 2 Maxtor DiamondMax 250gb drives and XP sp2. One has windows on it plus a couple of other programs and the other has everything else.
I noticed my computer was running quite a bit slower then usual this morning so decided to run a defrag on my drives. I decided to do it on the one that has most of my files on it first. For the first few times it came up a with a couple of error messages stating it couldn't defrag the drive at that time. Eventually it started but was taking an absolute age so I stopped it, which again resulted in an error. Set up a disk check and restarted the computer.
Upon rebooting it showed the windows xp splash screen and then all went black when I was expecting the disk check screen. Stayed like this for about 10mins with some hard disk activity before I reset. On bootup into windows my hard disk had disappeared from MY Computer. It can be seen in the bios and even under device manager where it states it is working perfectly but I can't view it.
As already stated almost everything is installed on this hard disk and I know there must be a way of retrieving some of my important files. Any ideas?
I noticed my computer was running quite a bit slower then usual this morning so decided to run a defrag on my drives. I decided to do it on the one that has most of my files on it first. For the first few times it came up a with a couple of error messages stating it couldn't defrag the drive at that time. Eventually it started but was taking an absolute age so I stopped it, which again resulted in an error. Set up a disk check and restarted the computer.
Upon rebooting it showed the windows xp splash screen and then all went black when I was expecting the disk check screen. Stayed like this for about 10mins with some hard disk activity before I reset. On bootup into windows my hard disk had disappeared from MY Computer. It can be seen in the bios and even under device manager where it states it is working perfectly but I can't view it.
As already stated almost everything is installed on this hard disk and I know there must be a way of retrieving some of my important files. Any ideas?