Try this google search. Take a look at the one labeled "lost drive D I read through several and many have some good suggestions. I don't used partition magic so I can't help you with it but the links in the google search may point you in the right direction. MitchellCooley ,.
Log in or Sign up to hide this advert. Resize, yes, but not make one. I don't think you will find MS "support" any third party resizing program, they warn about backing up your data when using their own built-in resizing system. If you don't have any luck, look for programs that will do data recovery, there are a few freeware ones available. After you have recovered your data, then you can try repairs or since it might "blow up" again at some later stage, zero low-level format and remake the partitions using Vista.
The hard disk drive manufacturer's utilities can often "see" the partitions, but probably not be able to repair them they might allow you to retrieve data using DOS.
You can try backing up, then "updating ", the MBR. See if Partition Magic or the "fixing program" can delete the D: drive it's empty, right?
Thanks for your replies guys. Sorry moderators, I probably posted multiple time. Anyways, I'm not sure this will help but when I start the boot corrector in Paragon Hard Disk Manager it tells me that there are no windows installations found. Edit: Give your posts quite a few minutes to get uploaded. That description "unformatted" would worry me. I haven't run Vista boot recovery, I have only read about Startup Repair. You won't be able to "copy" from an unformatted partition and when other software doesn't even see the partition, "unformatted" might not be correct either.
Did you have much data on the drive that was not backed-up? If you are trying to save "the system" and not the data, I'm am not sure that I would trust any repairs that may be able to rescue it as I said, I wouldn't feel secure that it might not "blow up" in the future. If it was a desktop computer and you mentioned that you have an external drive, the HDD could possibly be swapped with the internal, the OS installed on that drive and original HDD kept intact for "rescuing any data ". If your external drive has a 2.
If there was a magic "fixmbr ", that would be nice. I completely forgot about that until now, so I've just installed the drivers that are on the installation CD.
Now, only time will tell if that's made a difference! Take a look at this. It may be the solution to your problem. The only annoying thing about this problem if that there's no definitive way to tell if it's been solved - I'll just have to wait some time to see if the problem ever reoccurs.
Search In. Vista sometimes not recognizing external hard drive after starting up. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Lee G. Veteran Posted May 16, Posted May 16, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Veteran Posted May 19, If the new drive cannot be found when using the Disk Management feature, the physical installation might have failed.
You can try opening the BIOS menu and locate the drive from there. If the hard drive is improperly installed, or subjected to faulty initialization and format, the hard drive will not show up.
External hard drives may also not be included in the list, especially when the drive becomes corrupted or damaged. It's important to double-check the connections from your hard drive to the PC. Ensure that the cables connecting the hard drive to the power supply or motherboard are in place. If data cables are switched or misplaced, the system cannot detect the hard drive. Rather, have an expert look at your computer. Step 1. Run Disk Management and right-click in the partition that lacks a drive letter.
Now, from the context menu, select the Change Drive Letter and Paths option. Step 2. On the Change Drive Letter and Paths dialog box, tap on the Add button, and here, another dialog box will appear. Step 3. From the new pop-up dialog box, choose the Assign the following drive letter option and pick a letter from the drop-down list.
Once you choose the letter, click on the OK button, and the drive letter will then be assigned to the partition. After you successfully complete assigning a drive letter, you can now restart your PC system and check if the problem is now resolved or not.
If you suspect that a corrupted file or unsupported system is the root cause of the error, you can try disk initialization. To do so, follow the below steps:.
On the Disk Management window, you will see a list of all connected hard drives to the PC. Choose the drive that is unallocated and unknown. Right-click on it and select Initialize Disk. Select one and click OK. GPT is usually recommended, but you can read up about these two online before choosing.
The window will redirect to the Disk Management window.
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