soarwitheagles
Lookin' for higher ground
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Hi everyone!
The largest of my HD's no longer shows up when I click computer! It does show up when I open Computer Management, Storage!
Apparently there is no longer a letter assigned to this hard drive???
Oh, one other thing, just before this HD vanished, my Windows Vista Ultimate took a dump [gave me the Black Screen of Death], and I have never been able to recover it.
Presently, I have been booting off of Windows 7 RC on a second drive installed on the computer and it has been working just fine. I would like to install Windows 7 Ultimate that I just received from Microsoft.
Well, here are my questions:
Can I do anything to bring this "missing" hard drive online?
Is this drive bad? And if yes, how can I test it to be sure?
Would changing the "drive letter" or "path" help me in this mess?
Is there anyway I can recover my data from this drive?
And last, since I cannot format this drive through "normal" windows functions, is using Gparted the way to go?
Ok, poor eaglesoar is lost as can be on this one.
Please give me a helping hand and/or wing.
Up, up, and away!
Thanks,
Soar
The largest of my HD's no longer shows up when I click computer! It does show up when I open Computer Management, Storage!
Apparently there is no longer a letter assigned to this hard drive???
Oh, one other thing, just before this HD vanished, my Windows Vista Ultimate took a dump [gave me the Black Screen of Death], and I have never been able to recover it.
Presently, I have been booting off of Windows 7 RC on a second drive installed on the computer and it has been working just fine. I would like to install Windows 7 Ultimate that I just received from Microsoft.
Well, here are my questions:
Can I do anything to bring this "missing" hard drive online?
Is this drive bad? And if yes, how can I test it to be sure?
Would changing the "drive letter" or "path" help me in this mess?
Is there anyway I can recover my data from this drive?
And last, since I cannot format this drive through "normal" windows functions, is using Gparted the way to go?
Ok, poor eaglesoar is lost as can be on this one.
Please give me a helping hand and/or wing.
Up, up, and away!
Thanks,
Soar