Lost E: and A: drive

November 11th, 2007, 06:09 PM

I downloated pitition magic and it deleted my e: and a: drive. Can someone tell me how I can undelete them
Thanks

November 11th, 2007, 06:12 PM

have you tried rebooting?

November 11th, 2007, 06:15 PM

System restore?

November 11th, 2007, 06:18 PM

Partition Magic does not show your floppy and CD drive. Have you verified this in Explorer and not PM itself?

November 12th, 2007, 04:00 PM

I don't understand what you mean by "have I verified this in Explorer"

November 12th, 2007, 04:02 PM

I did try that

November 12th, 2007, 04:03 PM

I tried that already

November 12th, 2007, 04:58 PM

Something is missing here. Surely the "A" drive was your floppy. What drives do you get when you click on "My Computer"?

November 12th, 2007, 05:22 PM

they are not deleted, they are unallocated space. Go to Start-run-control panel-administrative tools-disk management. You should see 2 volumes with no drive letter assigned, right click and initialize disk. That should do it.

November 12th, 2007, 06:07 PM

Durka's da man!

November 13th, 2007, 06:23 PM

I did this and it did show the e: drive under "My Computer" but it won't open when I click on it. What did I do wrong
Thanks

November 13th, 2007, 07:19 PM

Right click on it, choose properties and see what it has to say. Is the data defined as RAW, NTFS, FAT32 or something else?

November 13th, 2007, 08:07 PM

Beside File System if has NTFS

November 13th, 2007, 08:45 PM

Sounds like partition magic killed the volume, probably need to format it.

November 14th, 2007, 10:31 AM

I've used Partition Magic, but I never had it do something I didn't ask it to do......Strange... If you are running XP you don't need Partition Magic do you?.....

November 14th, 2007, 11:41 AM

XP has built in partitioning tools, they are rather rudimentary though. Partition magic will allow you chop up an existing drive partition into multiples, it's not always a smart thing to do though since you can royally mess up the boot sector, lose data etc.

Partitioning live disks is a bad idea in my opinion. But option would be to back up data, wipe the disk then create partitions.

November 14th, 2007, 12:26 PM

Understood. I've only ever used the XP partitioning tool to put a few walls up in that 250 gig wasteland that occurs when someone like me who never had a big HD before installed Windows in the first twenty gig or so...