rstryker Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 last night while surfing around my power flickered on and off 4 or 5 times in 30 seconds. I thought everything was OK except now i noticed my d: DRIVE has dissapeared. the BIOS recognizes the drive and under disk management it is there but says all the space is unallocated. its like its not formated. any way to fix this without formating and loseing all my data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 Unallocated?!! hmm you've got some serious problems... D:\ won't come back unless you format it again. You'll have to try out some data recovery software.I hope something like this doesn't happen to me. My PC turns itself on automatically when the power is restored, so if the electricity was a bit jumpy while I was away, I'm gonna end up with a lot of damaged hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 Unallocated?!! hmm you've got some serious problems... D:\ won't come back unless you format it again. You'll have to try out some data recovery software.I hope something like this doesn't happen to me. My PC turns itself on automatically when the power is restored, so if the electricity was a bit jumpy while I was away, I'm gonna end up with a lot of damaged hardware Heh...Two of my computers are always on...On one of them, I have two drives, and when the power goes off nothing happens to them... The funny thing is, you know how some monitors go ON after the power is restored? Imagine that happening while you're asleep! That can be your alarm clock! It woke me up twice...rstryker, what kind of data did you have on that drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 yeah, one power cut won't do any harm, but 5 in 30 seconds is damaging. All the hardware is getting a surge of power - on and off every 5 secs, surely not doing them any good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rstryker Posted June 15, 2003 Author Share Posted June 15, 2003 rstryker, what kind of data did you have on that drive?my ghost image of C: , all of my connectix VM drives , overnet , various programs and my emminem videos. ****!i will format and run easy recovery 6 ... i'll keep you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaft Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 you forgot the porn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 shouldn't you run the recovery software BEFORE formatting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rstryker Posted June 15, 2003 Author Share Posted June 15, 2003 actually no, I have found it works alot better and faster if you format first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 oh right... did you manage to recover any of your lost data then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rstryker Posted June 16, 2003 Author Share Posted June 16, 2003 progressingrunning recovery now160GB drives take awhileelapsed time 1:02:44remaining time 23:22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdphr3@kXP Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 If u didnt get ur data from the drive using recovery software b4 u formatted it, u will lose it and u wont b able to recover it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rstryker Posted June 16, 2003 Author Share Posted June 16, 2003 If u didnt get ur data from the drive using recovery software b4 u formatted it, u will lose it and u wont b able to recover it incorrect...after formating i ran Easy Recover 6 >format recovery3318 directories found63208 files found97.6GB of data recovered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Easy Recover huh? Freeware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rstryker Posted June 16, 2003 Author Share Posted June 16, 2003 Easy Recover huh? Freeware?heck no...actually quite expensive...$499.00but well worth the investment.http://www.ontrack.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visentinel Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 Unallocated?!! hmm you've got some serious problems... D:\ won't come back unless you format it again. You'll have to try out some data recovery software.I hope something like this doesn't happen to me. My PC turns itself on automatically when the power is restored, so if the electricity was a bit jumpy while I was away, I'm gonna end up with a lot of damaged hardware CHange the setting in the bios Set the Soft Off setting to - Stay offthe setting Differs form Bios to Bios, SO look Carefully 96 gigs of Data recovered !!!, That Program Must be really good, to achieve that much Recovery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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