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    Acer 6920g missing data (D) drive

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mrcraig, Feb 18, 2011.

  1. mrcraig

    mrcraig Newbie

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    I recently upgraded from vista to win7, the upgrade went smoothly and the laptop was fine,and then yesterday I turned it on to find I only had Acer (C) drive. The (D) drive wasn't there,I've tried restoring back to vista via my recovery disks but still have no (D) drive. I also tried the alt-f10 way, but still to no avail.I've looked at it through disk manager, and that shows 4 diff partitions 2 small 1 Acer(c) and 1 that's obviously my (d), but I can't set drive paths. Please can somebody help me!!! I need my data back!
     
    mrcraig, Feb 18, 2011
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  2. michael_recycled

    michael_recycled Notebook Deity

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    Hi,

    try a Linux Live CD like Knoppix or Ubuntu and see if you can retrieve your data.

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Feb 18, 2011
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  3. mrcraig

    mrcraig Newbie

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    Thanks for the reply, but I managed to sort it out myself. I used ptedit, and managed to get the partition to show through disk manager so I could set the paths. I'm a happy bunny, and I have my 110gb of space back.
     
    mrcraig, Feb 18, 2011
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  4. gazzacbr

    gazzacbr Notebook Evangelist

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    @mr(happy bunny)craig :) would be worth knowing/guessing how it happened anyway. could you post a quick description of how you used ptedit?
    could be a failing hard drive. my original acer hard drive had 'strange' problems after about 18months. a replacement is not a great expense anyway.
    buy a portable hard drive TODAY (as big as you can afford) and back up all your data. there are utilities for imaging your drive to a new one.
    i use acronis true image (not a selling plug but just what i use, there are others) which can image and compress any partition. a full restore of a corrupt partition is quick and easy and if you keep all your data on the D: drive, very little will be lost.
     
    gazzacbr, Feb 20, 2011
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