Second Hard drive D: has disapeared

[JakesLadder1]

Hello: Recently my cable net provider told me, " My cable Modem could not reaquire, After we did signal ect. trouble shooting, and that I would have to uninstall my firewall". After doing that and reinstalling, rebooting and trying to defragment D: drive, my Second Hard Drive D: DISSAPEARED.

As my C: Drive is so small (a "Caviar 21600") I, about a year ago, added a second Hard Drive (Caviar 24300, 4311.9 MB) D:. Due to obvious limitations in C: capacity, I, When installing any software or hardware, replaced the C: DESTINATION Drive with D:.

Now I cannot access anything on my computer because whatever connected my C: to my D: is gone. Phisically/hardware has not changed. The firewall removal has also taken away the recognition of me having a D: Hard Drive????? HELP

If you need my Phone..., Email me and I will supply it. As I'm New to this I'm Not sure of the proticols. Also I don't know how to get back to here so could you please E-Mail me with instructions on how to retreive your answers?

P.S. The main address I was given to here is in Giant print?? I got lucky scrolling to far right of main site page and found NewsGroup link small enuff to read/click. Could you also instruct me on how to access this site in normal sized text?

[Don Phillipson]

"JakesLadder1" or > wrote in
message ...

> Hello: Recently my cable net provider told me, " My cable Modem could not
reaquire, After we did signal ect. trouble shooting, and that I would have
to uninstall my firewall". After doing that and reinstalling, rebooting and
trying to defragment D: drive, my Second Hard Drive D: DISSAPEARED.
>
> As my C: Drive is so small (a "Caviar 21600") I, about a year ago, added
a second Hard Drive (Caviar 24300, 4311.9 MB) D:. Due to obvious
limitations in C: capacity, I, When installing any software or hardware,
replaced the C: DESTINATION Drive with D:.
>

1. The cable modem problem ought to be
irrellevant. Your D: was probably damaged
while "trying to defragment D: drive."

2a. If you have adequate backups, it might
be simpler to FDISK (wipe) D: and restore
from backups.
2b. If you do not have adequate backups,
the safest recovery might be to put physical
drive D: into another PC with Windows
installed on D: (and Win swap file on C:)
and then see what you can copy or recover.

We need more information to offer more
specific help, e.g.
-- what happened during DEFRAG?
-- can BIOS detect the second hard drive?

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)