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Magic
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:27 am    Post subject: hard drive issues Reply with quote
i have a 30 gig back-up--was working fine and had no problems,i low leveled
and reformatted my main drive,and now windows doesn't show the 30 gig,i have
treid the device manager and it shows ther eand says it's working fine. is
there something i'm missing??? the 2 drives worked fine before,but had
someone sennd me a nasty virus or something,at any rate,now i can't access
the 30 gigany help is appreciated
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Pegasus (MVP)
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:26 pm    Post subject: Re: hard drive issues Reply with quote
You must create a partition on the new drive, then format it.
Run diskmgmt.msc via Start / Run to do this.

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Magic
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:27 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive issues Reply with quote
it was already formatted,and was working fine,my system crashed and when i
reformatted the back-up was just gone,it had already been formatted and had
storage info on it
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neil
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:27 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive issues Reply with quote
Try using the diskmgmt.msc command via "start>run" after you have opened
disk management if you can see your backup drive then allocate a drive
letter.
Neil
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Ghostrider
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:27 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive issues Reply with quote
Magic wrote:

Quote:
it was already formatted,and was working fine,my system crashed and when i
reformatted the back-up was just gone,it had already been formatted and had
storage info on it


It would seem that if the backup file was still on the HD
when it was re-formatted, then the formatting wiped it away
along with all of the other storage information.
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