It happneded this morning. I have two HD, the master drive is for OS (dual boot)…and is still running fine.
The second HD is for my files (music, videos, pics….multimedia etc).
So I used GetDataBack to try salvage some files that I lost…….was able to retrieve it…& everything seems to be running just fine.
Then I rebooted my PC……..Then the HD letter for the second drive is missing!!!
My second HD cannot be found anywhere.
I tried some troubleshooting:
-Device Manager can detect it (IDE Controller).
-Partition Magic can still see the drive (No letter).
-Partition Magic still recognizes all the original partitions on the drive.
-But, Partition Magic sees it as an unallocated drive (meaning wiped out & now emptied?)
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So now I’m stuck, I’m sure the connections is fine, the bios is fine, everything was just fine until I rebooted the PC.
Should I remove the drive and re-connect the IDE again?
or buy one of those USB to IDE cable and see if my pc will detect it and give a drive letter? (hoping the files are still on the drive)
thanks in advance!