Lost hard drive partiton

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  • My drive labeled G is missing. along with my files. all drives have been shifted one drive letter out and my CD drive is the last drive letter--I have 4 drives. This happened while I was trying to install Goback v321. I want to know what likely happened, why and how to remedy the situation. I am running WINXP


  • wpbdude... Please clarify what drives and letters you had before and what you have now, e.g., before, you had: C - hard drive 1, partition 1 D - hard drive 1, partition 2 E - hard drive 2, partition 1 F - hard drive 2, partition 2 G - CD drive ...and now you have, e.g.: C - hard drive 1, partition 1 D - hard drive 2, partition 1 E - hard drive 2, partition 2 F - CD drive ...and so you're missing hard drive 1, partition 2. This would help in working with the problem. sublime1-ga


  • was: c: hdd1, part 1 d: cd e: hdd2, part 1 f: hdd3, part 1 g: hdd3, part 2 now: c: hdd1, part 1 pri-ntfs d: hdd3, part 1 pri-fat32 e: hdd2, part 1 log, pri, ext-ntfs f: hdd3, part 2 log, pri, ext-ntfs If you like, I have partiton magic and I have a screen print of the current situation. Thanks, DW h: cd


  • h: CD


  • wpbdude... Part of the problem is that Windows likes to put the CD drive at the end of the list, but we should be able to get around that. Assuming that G shows up as an available drive letter in Partition Magic, and that it would benefit you to have the drives assigned to their original letters, you can do the following (drive letters should become available once you reassign them). I have Windows 2000, but Windows XP should be basically the same: In Partition Magic... Right-click on the F drive -> Advanced -> Change Drive Letter to G If G is not available, let me know if that's the case, and we can work from there. Right-click on the D drive -> Advanced -> Change Drive Letter to F Click Apply Changes, and allow PM to reboot the system and make the changes. This should free up D, making it available for your CD-ROM. After reboot, check in Windows Explorer to see if Windows has already reassigned the CD-ROM drive to D. If not, open Computer Management in Administrative Tools. Click on Disk Management. This step is necessary since CD-ROM drives don't show up as manageable in Partition Magic. Right-click on your CD drive (H) and select Change Drive Letter and Path. In the dialog box that results, choose Edit, and use the drop-down box to reassign the Drive to D. Windows may require a reboot at this point, to make the necessary changes. There may be slight variances in dialog text due to the different operating system, but this shouldn't prove a major obstacle. That should do it! Please let me know if you were successful, or if you need further information due to unseen circumstances. Please do not rate this answer until you are satisfied that the answer cannot be improved upon by way of a dialog established through the "Request for Clarification" process. A user's guide on this topic is on skermit-ga's site, here: http://www.christopherwu.net/google_answers/answer_guide.html#how_clarify sublime1-ga No searches were required for this topic, as I have a good deal of experience with it.


  • Its not working. The system keeps reverting to the old drive letters. I have tried it several times, shutting out other programs, trying to change one drive at a time--ZIPPO. Please advise. I think I am missing some files too--but I won't be sure untill I get the drive letters straightened out, I think. DW


  • DW... You noted that this problem occurred when you were *trying* to install GoBack. Does that mean the install was unsuccessful? Did any potentially useful messages arise during the aborted install, if that's what took place? Either way, about the only recourse that occurs to me is to try using Windows XP's built-in capacity to go back to an earlier time, using System Restore to return to a "restore point" which preceeded the installation of GoBack. If GoBack *did* install, have you attempted to uninstall it first? Since GoBack is not infrequently acquired as 'warez', I also have to wonder if you might have acquired an infected copy, and if a virus is at the root of some of the problems you're seeing in attempting to change your drive letters back. Are you familiar with System Restore in Windows XP? If so, give that a try and see if your drive assignments revert to normal, or if you're able to use Partition Magic to revert them after reaching the old restore point. Also, you note that your attempts to follow the steps I gave you were unsuccessful. Did you get any error messages which might be useful in pinpointing the problems Windows is having with these processes? It may not be possible to resolve this at a distance, especially in the absence of step-by-step feedback on what is occurring every step of the way. If this turns out to be the case, I will ask the editors to remove my answer so that someone else can give it a shot. This is always a risk when attempting to solve a computer problem at a distance. Let me know where this takes you... sublime1-ga


  • DW... In consideration of the possibility that you might be dealing with the effects of a virus or other malware, I thought I would offer you some resources: Online & downloadable virus scans: AntiVir: http://www.free-av.com/ BitDefender: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php Computer Associates: http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virusscan.aspx McAffee: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp? Panda: http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm Trend Micro: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp Trend Micro and AntiVir are known to pick up on things which are sometimes missed by Norton. You might also download, install and run the following: Lavasoft AdAware: http://www.lavasoft.de/ SpyBot Search and Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org And, as preventive measures, download and install: Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html WinPatrol http://www.winpatrol.com/ Let me know where this takes you. sublime1-ga







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