PLEASE Help. HARDDRIVE GONE.

Hey everyone -- trying not to panic here.

I have windows XP. I have 2 harddrives -- the C drive, which is the
original drive that came with my computer, and the F drive, a 250 gig
internal drive I installed a while back.

I turned on my computer today and the F drive is gone. It's not
showing up in explorer, in disk manager, and any files I try to find
on it are gone.

This drive had everything on it...I have no clue why it's not showing
up. I restarted my computer 3 times. I don't know what else to do.

Thank you so much.


-Jordan

philo
Sat Mar 22 02:14:15 PDT 2008


"Poordan" <JordanCooperLaLaLa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b316f2a8-4815-4de5-b345-f2cc8cdadd0b@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Hey everyone -- trying not to panic here.
>
> I have windows XP. I have 2 harddrives -- the C drive, which is the
> original drive that came with my computer, and the F drive, a 250 gig
> internal drive I installed a while back.
>
> I turned on my computer today and the F drive is gone. It's not
> showing up in explorer, in disk manager, and any files I try to find
> on it are gone.
>
> This drive had everything on it...I have no clue why it's not showing
> up. I restarted my computer 3 times. I don't know what else to do.
>
> Thank you so much.
>
>
> -Jordan


First check to see if it's detected in the bios

if not, open tha case and check the cables

Anna
Sat Mar 22 07:52:59 PDT 2008


> "Poordan" <JordanCooperLaLaLa@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:b316f2a8-4815-4de5-b345-f2cc8cdadd0b@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> Hey everyone -- trying not to panic here.
>>
>> I have windows XP. I have 2 harddrives -- the C drive, which is the
>> original drive that came with my computer, and the F drive, a 250 gig
>> internal drive I installed a while back.
>>
>> I turned on my computer today and the F drive is gone. It's not
>> showing up in explorer, in disk manager, and any files I try to find
>> on it are gone.
>>
>> This drive had everything on it...I have no clue why it's not showing
>> up. I restarted my computer 3 times. I don't know what else to do.
>>
>> Thank you so much.
>>
>>
>> -Jordan


"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:usY9L0$iIHA.6032@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> First check to see if it's detected in the bios
>
> if not, open tha case and check the cables


Jordan:
Another thing you might want to try at this point is to download the HDD
diagnostic utility that will probably be available from the disk's
manufacturer.
Anna

Poordan
Sat Mar 22 12:15:41 PDT 2008

Hey

So I woke up today, turned on my computer and now everything is normal
again.

I'm still worried though -- no clue what happened. Any ideas?? I
still may open up my computer and make sure everything's ok, though I
can't imagine what could have gone on inside of it (it hasn't been
touched)


-Jordan

philo
Sat Mar 22 12:39:23 PDT 2008


"Poordan" <JordanCooperLaLaLa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8f8a329d-0096-4309-9e69-192bf8990970@p73g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> Hey
>
> So I woke up today, turned on my computer and now everything is normal
> again.
>
> I'm still worried though -- no clue what happened. Any ideas?? I
> still may open up my computer and make sure everything's ok, though I
> can't imagine what could have gone on inside of it (it hasn't been
> touched)
>
>
> -Jordan


definately check the connections

M
Tue Mar 25 05:48:11 PDT 2008


"Poordan" <JordanCooperLaLaLa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8f8a329d-0096-4309-9e69-192bf8990970@p73g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> Hey
>
> So I woke up today, turned on my computer and now everything is normal
> again.
>
> I'm still worried though -- no clue what happened. Any ideas?? I
> still may open up my computer and make sure everything's ok, though I
> can't imagine what could have gone on inside of it (it hasn't been
> touched)
>

If nothing else, you should have learned the value of having a proper backup
of your system's drives.