Cant access usb disk

yrana2002 · 14-02-2006, 09:48 PM

I have a 80GB USB hard disk which windows used to identify as USB Mass Storage Device.
It used to run perfectly before, having 2 partitions g:\ and f:\, but now it doesnt recognize them.

It happened yesterday when i was tweaking my pc from this site:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=235571

I made the following changes:

1. Right click on 'my computer' > select 'properties' > Go to the 'hardware' tab and select 'device manager' to open the device management window.

Expand 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' and highlight the 'primary IDE channel.'
Right click the highlighted entry and select 'properties.'
Go to the 'advanced settings' tab.

and so according to the post. But i reverted it back to default but still nothing happened.

2. DISABLE UNUSED PORTS & DEVICES

This also, reverted by system restore.

However, when i open up Partition Magic, it shows the second disk but as 76GB unallocated. What happened to my data(about 40GB) and my two partitions?

Charan · 14-02-2006, 10:04 PM

I think your patrition has been erased. I hope its not.Unallocated means that there are no partitions. try to recover the partitions.

14-02-2006, 09:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
yrana2002 Alpha Geek Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: The Black Pearl Posts: 507	Cant access usb disk I have a 80GB USB hard disk which windows used to identify as USB Mass Storage Device. It used to run perfectly before, having 2 partitions g:\ and f:\, but now it doesnt recognize them. It happened yesterday when i was tweaking my pc from this site: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=235571 I made the following changes: 1. Right click on 'my computer' > select 'properties' > Go to the 'hardware' tab and select 'device manager' to open the device management window. Expand 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' and highlight the 'primary IDE channel.' Right click the highlighted entry and select 'properties.' Go to the 'advanced settings' tab. and so according to the post. But i reverted it back to default but still nothing happened. 2. DISABLE UNUSED PORTS & DEVICES This also, reverted by system restore. However, when i open up Partition Magic, it shows the second disk but as 76GB unallocated. What happened to my data(about 40GB) and my two partitions?

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14-02-2006, 10:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
Charan >:)I-):(\|)8-X Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು (Bengaluru) Posts: 3,511	I think your patrition has been erased. I hope its not.Unallocated means that there are no partitions. try to recover the partitions.