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Swylen
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_ 		11. October 2004 @ 13:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have the same issue. I had an error and was told to reinstall xp on my SP2 system. I did and lost my slave 250G Maxtor. I can see it in Computer Management as unallocated. I'm going to try this tonight.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1139&page=8
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jjslim
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_ 		13. October 2004 @ 07:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just for your info. I disabled SMART and my drive is still there now... Could smart have fixed something that was corrupt or something?

Later,
JJ
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Swylen
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_ 		13. October 2004 @ 08:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I was able to grab the backup MBR off my NTFS disk and install it over the corrupt one using testdisk.exe. It's all fixed now.
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Swylen
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_ 		13. October 2004 @ 08:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
testdisk can be found here.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/
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Kanuha
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_ 		13. October 2004 @ 17:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just ran across the same problem. I bought a new Maxtor drive and used a different program to fdisk and format the drive. I did make it active as well. Booted into Windows XP Home and saw the found new hardware icon and bubble. Went to My Computer and I did not see it. Searched through all sorts of options to no avail. Then I searched the Internet and ran across this forum post. After reading and running across a post which directed me to the control panel and admin section. I went into disk management and what did I find? I had a couple of network drives mapped to my daughters computer. One of these drives was mapped as G. This is the same drive letter that Windows said it assigned my new drive, but I did not see it under My Computer. At least not as a Hard Drive. For some reason Windows XP did not change the drive type icon. It did somehow disconnect the mapped network drive though. I went into device manager, uninstalled the drive then went and disconnected all networked (mapped) drives. I then did a reboot and all was well. I remapped the drives to a lower drive letter. Long story, but hope it will help someone who runs into this same problem. It may help the other two individuals who spoke of a problem similar to this one.
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