Can't access slave drive

Hi

I have a slave drive that was getting really filled (it was showin
red). Now, it has disappeared from the "My Computer" section and
cannot find it. I don't know how to access it to take some things off.
have all of my photos and graphics on there and I'm scared of losin
them

Thank you in advance for your time and any help you might have for me

Meliss

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Daydream

An internal drive or external?
If internal what is shown in Disk Management
If external tried on another PC?

"Daydream" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a slave drive that was getting really filled (it was showing
> red). Now, it has disappeared from the "My Computer" section and I
> cannot find it. I don't know how to access it to take some things off. I
> have all of my photos and graphics on there and I'm scared of losing
> them.
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and any help you might have for me.
>
> Melissa
>
>
> --
> Daydream

Hi

It is an internal drive ("F").

I don't see an option for "Disk Management". When I choose th
"Computer" option from the start-up menu, I used to see all three drive
under (Hard Disk Drives) and now it only shows two: "C" and "D". I'v
never used "D"... I think it is a partition drive that was created whe
the computer was built, but I've never touched it

Thank you
Meliss

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Daydream

See Help Disk Management or Computer management
Can be accessed via Contol Panel
Broadly speaking Disk Management will list your drives / partitions and give
an indication if there is a problem

D is probably a recovery Partition, particularly if its only a small size;
you have created your Recovery cd/dvd's havent you, if they were not
supplied?

"Daydream" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi,
>
> It is an internal drive ("F").
>
> I don't see an option for "Disk Management". When I choose the
> "Computer" option from the start-up menu, I used to see all three drives
> under (Hard Disk Drives) and now it only shows two: "C" and "D". I've
> never used "D"... I think it is a partition drive that was created when
> the computer was built, but I've never touched it.
>
> Thank you.
> Melissa
>
>
> --
> Daydream

It just shows drives C and D. No more F

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Daydream

"Daydream" <> wrote in message
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> It just shows drives C and D. No more F.
>
>
> --
> Daydream

Disk management console. Right click My Computer, Left click Manage, Left
click Disk Management. You are there. What drives does it show? Should
show C & D on one line and any CD/DVD drives as drive numbers and also your
drive F but it may not have a drive letter assigned but be listed there.
Let us know what the disk says. If the disk does not show even without a
drive letter something has failed in the drive to prevent Windows from
seeing it.

Two other checks is to see if the computer is recognizing the slave drive
(this is an internal second physical drive, correct?) in the bios. You need
to enable the computer to show the bios information while booting.

Another would be to remove the drive from the computer and either installing
as a slave into another computer or into a USB enclosure and plugging into
another computer to see if it is recognized.

Thank you for explaining it better. Here is what I found in the Manag
screens. It doesn't specifically say "F" drive and I'm kinda los
looking at it.

[image: http://www.daydreamlane.com/sss1.jpg

[image: http://www.daydreamlane.com/sss2.jpg

I haven't rebooted yet to see if I can see it in the bios screen. I'l
do that shortly

Thank you so very, very much for helping me

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Daydream

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:39:49 -0600, Daydream wrote:

> Thank you for explaining it better. Here is what I found in the Manage
> screens. It doesn't specifically say "F" drive and I'm kinda lost
> looking at it.
>
> [image: http://www.daydreamlane.com/sss1.jpg]
>
> [image: http://www.daydreamlane.com/sss2.jpg]
>
> I haven't rebooted yet to see if I can see it in the bios screen. I'll
> do that shortly.
>
> Thank you so very, very much for helping me.

Is L: the drive you think was F:?

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No... that's the card reader for my camera card. What is the one with n
letter assigned

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Daydream

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:48:04 -0600, Daydream wrote:

> No... that's the card reader for my camera card. What is the one with no
> letter assigned?

Who the h*all are you replying to? Learn to thread properly.

If you are replying to my post, then the only partition with no letter is
on your primary hard drive. It is almost certainly Acer's recovery
partition (and *don't* mess with it - you might need it someday).

Yes, it looks like J, K, L, and M are your multi-slot card reader, with a
card in L:. I apparently read 64 MB as 64 GB - nobody uses MB anymore
(joke). The clue that it's a four-slot card reader is the word "Removable"
on the left of the drives. I also missed that before :-)

No other hard drive appears.

Here's a suggestion - the next time you want to do a screen capture of a
window such as Disk Management, expand it so you can get all of the
information into one picture. It's a PITA to have to switch around, and it
also can lead to confusion because of the resulting lack of continuity.

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