Windows 2000 Lost slave drive

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Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the
slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When
investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy
(Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT.

TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!!

David
 
"David" <davids58@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the
> slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When
> investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy
> (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT.
>
> TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!!
>
> David

It's nice to know that the C: drive is FAT but you did not
report what file system the missing disk uses. Did you assign
a drive letter to the partition on the missing disk?
 
"David" <davids58@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:42b82650-5451-4672-ae5a-605489767224@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the
> slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When
> investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy
> (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT.
>
> TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!!
>
> David

If the drive has no letter assigned to it...
see if you can do so from disk management
 
On Dec 17, 11:22 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote:
> "David" <david...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:42b82650-5451-4672-ae5a-605489767224@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the
> > slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When
> > investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy
> > (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT.
>
> > TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!!
>
> > David
>
> It's nice to know that the C: drive is FAT but you did not
> report what file system the missing disk uses. Did you assign
> a drive letter to the partition on the missing disk?

The slave is F: and I believe it was FAT also.
 
"David" <davids58@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Dec 17, 11:22 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote:
>> "David" <david...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:42b82650-5451-4672-ae5a-605489767224@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > Something's going on with my son's Win2K SP4 machine. Somehow, the
>> > slave drive (with all his data and media) can't be found. When
>> > investigate with Disk Management, the drive shows to be 'Healthy
>> > (Active)'. FWIW, the C: drive is formatted FAT.
>>
>> > TIA for any ideas how we might recover the drive content!!
>>
>> > David
>>
>> It's nice to know that the C: drive is FAT but you did not
>> report what file system the missing disk uses. Did you assign
>> a drive letter to the partition on the missing disk?
>
> The slave is F: and I believe it was FAT also.

The Disk Manager shows you what file system a given partition
has. If you can see no file system then it may be lost. I would
use a recovery program, e.g. Acronis Recovery Expert.
 
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