partition improperly dismounted

Many years ago I purchased a WD Caviar drive. It broke within a few weeks. A few years later I purchased another WD Caviar drive. It broke within a few weeks. Since then I have decided that I would not purchase any more WD disk drives. I've had very good experiences with disk drives from most other manufacturers so I think that my decision to stay away from WD disks was a good one. Almost all of my other disk drives have outlived the life of the computer that they were installed into.

I wish that I could be more helpful.

it sounds like your file system is hosed. I don't know which Windows version your running. but you might try to boot from the install disk and recover any important data.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think you're going to have to re-partition and format.

I had the same problem and the solution in order not to loose your data if is to:
1st find a copy of Ontrack easy recovery and make a boot disk
2nd find another hard disk with fat32 file system (pref clean format) and plug it in.
3rd boot from ontrack boot disk and copy your files from you WD drive to the fat32 hard disk. and you now have your files in a safe place..

After that you can do what ever you like (e.i Format your WD)

I hope it was helpfull
Nofear XS(NF)