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Why did XP decide my partition has NO file system?
My ordeal started with a forced shutdown of XP (I have to do this on
occasion). CHKDSK started up to check my drive N: (the only partition in a 180GB WD drive), finished quickly and found no errors. However now XP (Disk Management) thinks my N: drive is empty and has NO file system. It was formatted as NTFS and was (and is) about 50% full. The really fascinating thing is that all my disk utilities like PartitionMagic 8 and Active Partition Recovery do not see any errors whatsoever - and see the file system as NTFS. I can use an undelete utility to recover my data across my network, format the drive and restore everything but it will take the entire day. But is there something I can do within XP to convince it that the drive has an NTFS file system?? One implicating factor might be that I recently changed this partition to 64K file clusters from 4K (it's used primarily for video storage). Although everything seemed fine for a day, could this file cluster change have messed up XP somehow? |
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Why did XP decide my partition has NO file system?
It now looks like my hard drive is no longer useable. I have
reformatted in Disk Management - first using the quick format option. All appeared fine until I rebooted and then once again XP decided the drive had no file system. I then did a full format, copied my data back, rebooted once and all looked fine. But after a 2nd reboot, the drive is again without a file system. What a huge PITA. On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:11:19 GMT, Angelfood MacSpade wrote: My ordeal started with a forced shutdown of XP (I have to do this on occasion). CHKDSK started up to check my drive N: (the only partition in a 180GB WD drive), finished quickly and found no errors. However now XP (Disk Management) thinks my N: drive is empty and has NO file system. It was formatted as NTFS and was (and is) about 50% full. The really fascinating thing is that all my disk utilities like PartitionMagic 8 and Active Partition Recovery do not see any errors whatsoever - and see the file system as NTFS. I can use an undelete utility to recover my data across my network, format the drive and restore everything but it will take the entire day. But is there something I can do within XP to convince it that the drive has an NTFS file system?? One implicating factor might be that I recently changed this partition to 64K file clusters from 4K (it's used primarily for video storage). Although everything seemed fine for a day, could this file cluster change have messed up XP somehow? |
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