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I partitioned my 160GB SATA Maxtor hdd into 10GB and 150GB, more or less. I have Windows XP Pro SP2, along with most of my programs, on the smaller c: partition. The d: partition has all my music, documents, and files.

I don't think I was doing anything out of the ordinary, but now when I try to access the d: drive through windows explorer (going through my computer), an error message comes up saying "Disk is not formatted. Would you like to format it now?" I click no because I don't want to lose my data.

When I try to access a folder shortcut on the desktop that resides on d:, an error message says "The drive or network connection that the shortcut ... refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available, and then try again.

In computer management -> disk management, both partitions are recognized and have correct capacity, and are listed as healthy. However, d: is missing a label under file system. c: says "nfts" while d: is blank.

When I try to go to properties, d: shows up as 0 bytes.

The only thing I can think of that might have happened is some automatic windows update changed some setting. But really I have no clue. I can provide any additional information if needed.

Thanks
 
sounds like your partiton got erased and is literally unformated. If somehow your windows installation got borked you can try to string it up as a slave drive in a buddy's system and copy everything over, but you may have just learned a very painful lesson in backing up (as has almost everyone on the board).

Hopefully i'm a moron and someone comes along with a solution, but it doesnt sound good.
 
it does sound like you lost your partition. you should see ntfs for your file system. don't know why that happened. you could boot to your windows cd and pretend you are going to install a fresh copy(not repair option) and see the info of your partions that way...there used to be a handy file called fdisk.exe that did this, but i can't find it in windows xp.

sounds like all your data is mysteriously gone, unfortunately.
 
If that is the case, you can still probably save the data ... if you have another drive to save it to.

I had a similar issue a few weeks ago and was able to restore everything with GetDataBack NTFS from http://www.runtime.org/

This program was amazing. You don't have to pay until it finds the data and you're ready to recover. Check it out.... and good luck!
 
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