Help My second HD appears unlocated !

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Hi,

I wanted to install my unattended xp cd. I have 2 HD.

1 S-ATA 120 GO (maxtor)

1 IDE 200 GO (maxtor)

after i installed my XP SP2, my second HD (IDE one) does not appear and with acronis, it says my HD is unallocated.

But it is full of DATA and was working correctely just before i reinstall XP. I did a clean install with a full XP SP2 but still teh same problem. What does that means ? what's wrong with my HD ? is it because of windows which cannot recognize it ?

I hope I have not lost all my personnal data.

Could you help me on that point.

Thank you in advance.

Weebs,

[XtremeMaC]

that happened to me once

it basically just deleted the fat table, so all your files in there but since TableOfContents are deleted it says it's unallocated.

what I did was I got R-studio Ntfs recovery program and recovered all my files.. there are other alternatives as u've mentioned acronis has a partition recovery program but i didn't really like it, bc at the time when I had this program it didn't allow copy of that partition to a already allocated partition. and I didn't have extra hdd to backup my stuff....

anyways u can 1st try the trials of those programs to see if they can find the files, (don't worry they don't access them unless u told them so, so no changes will appear in your hdd unless u click on recover option.)

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Thanks XtremeMaC,

as it was late in my place yesterday, i did not wait for an answer and as i knew about Acronis Disk Director Suite v9.0.508, i used it and try the revover partition option blindly. And indeed, it resolved my problem. I am so happy.

But it did not explain how it that happened.

Is it cause of my unattended installation ?

I would say maybe it is due to the fact i have a s-ata drive where i installed my os before and had a new IDE HD later.

I wanted to installed it on a IDE drive but without diconnecting the S-ATA HD.

What i don't understant is that i did anything like suppress partition .... just launched my cd of XP, and from that point, my IDE drive was already unallocated.

That's very strange. If someone know a reason of that trouble, i would be glad to hear from you ...

C-ya

Weebs,