external hard drive partition is being displayed as a local partition [modified]
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i have attached a 200G hard drive externally with my system. there has been a power malfunction in our area. when the power came back, one partition of the external hard drive is shown as a partition of the local system hard drive. the partition that is being shown as the local drive is not accessible. i checked the disk from the disk manager, it shows the partition as healty, but it doesn't show any file system. my system has also become very slow. Helpppp!!!
modified on Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:19 AM
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i have attached a 200G hard drive externally with my system. there has been a power malfunction in our area. when the power came back, one partition of the external hard drive is shown as a partition of the local system hard drive. the partition that is being shown as the local drive is not accessible. i checked the disk from the disk manager, it shows the partition as healty, but it doesn't show any file system. my system has also become very slow. Helpppp!!!
modified on Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:19 AM
1. Shut your computer down to prevent any write access to the harddisks. 2. Boot your PC into a recovery system. I usually use Knoppix. 3. Check if parted shows the same problem. 4. If yes: Use recovery tools (like TestDisk and others) to try and recover the original partitioning information on both disks. 4. If no: Reinstall Windows. Whatever you do, do a full byte-for-byte backup of the drives involved! Use something like DD or ddrescue. That way, you should be able to try different solutions by replaying the backup if one tool fails.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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i have attached a 200G hard drive externally with my system. there has been a power malfunction in our area. when the power came back, one partition of the external hard drive is shown as a partition of the local system hard drive. the partition that is being shown as the local drive is not accessible. i checked the disk from the disk manager, it shows the partition as healty, but it doesn't show any file system. my system has also become very slow. Helpppp!!!
modified on Thursday, August 6, 2009 2:19 AM
What happens if you disconnect the external drive from your system before you start it?