Lost E: and A: drive

[narvie]

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

 

[earth_as_one]

have you tried rebooting?

 

[lone wolf]

System restore?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

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

 

[narvie]

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

 

[narvie]

have you tried rebooting?

I did try that;-)

 

[narvie]

System restore?

I tried that already:-|

 

[#juan]

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

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

 

[DurkaDurka]

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

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.

 

[Locutus]

Durka's da man!

 

[narvie]

Didn't Work

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.

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

 

[DurkaDurka]

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

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

 

[narvie]

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

Beside File System if has NTFS

 

[DurkaDurka]

Beside File System if has NTFS

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

 

[#juan]

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?.....

 

[DurkaDurka]

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?.....

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.

 

[#juan]

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...:roll::smile: