A week or more ago, I noticed that the desktop icon for internal drive F
was missing. I reinstalled the shortcut using My Computer (Windows XP
SP 2).
Now trying to access the drive F, I get this message from Windows: "The
disk drive in F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"
I have 5 hard drives: 2 internal (including F), three external. Here's
what Belarc Advisor says:
DMI WD5000AAKB-0_UKA IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) --
drive 0
Maxtor 6 L200P0 USB Device [Hard drive] (203.92 GB) -- drive 3
Maxtor 6Y120M0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 2, s/n Y3KTK99E, rev
YAR51EW0, SMART <http://www.belarc.com/smart.html> Status: Healthy
WD 4000YS External USB Device [Hard drive] (400.09 GB) -- drive 4
WDC WD1200JD-75FYB0 [Hard drive] (120.00 GB) -- drive 1
The amounts of GBs doesn't seem right to me in the above. Here's what I
think that I have:
drive C (boot drive, internal): 120 GB
drive F: can't remember, probably 160 GB (My Computer reports 0 bytes,
internal)
drive X: 500 GB
drive Y: 400 GB
drive Z: thought it was 400 GB, but My Computer reports it as 200 GB.
Is all my data on drive F destroyed? I have a backup of drive F but it
is from 2007 November. I can't remember what data is on drive F.
Should I reformat and restore the backup? Or is it possible that drive
F is being reported as unformatted when it really is not? What to do?
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