External hard drive issue

[ashley75]

Hi all,

I have the external hard drive and I partitioned into three small partitions: E- data1, F - data2, G - Quorum,

Any way, I don't know what I did and now the E partition (data1) changed to local disk and I can't get access to that partition anymore. F and G are still ok. I know there is nothing wrong with E b/c everytime I plus the drive in and it does scan E (via autoplay), another word, it can see files in E drive but I CAN NOT open it.

does anyone have any tricks? I need to get files out of there.

thanks million

 

[ashley75]

also, when I run chkdsk , below is what I got:

C:\Documents and Settings\dud>chkdsk e:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is DATA1.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Replacing bad clusters in logfile.
Adding 1 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

33551720 KB total disk space.
448452 KB in 1095 files.
544 KB in 206 indexes.
4 KB in bad sectors.
68308 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
33034412 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
8387930 total allocation units on disk.
8258603 allocation units available on disk.

 

[SuperJenks]

It may be as simple as going into disk managment and see if you can re-allocate the drive letters to the proper partitions. I ran into the same exact sitution 4 years ago with an external drive. You will likely have to reformat the drive, but, I was able to get the files off the disk with a program call "File Undelete". Its a forensic tool used for data lose retrieval. It worked excellent. Good Luck.