Hard Drive Lost Format and Name
HP xw8600 PC with Windows 7 Ultimate and ESET antivirus all up to date. I have 3 hard drives in my computer --- C: is the operating system, --- F: (2Tb) is for data and --- V: (3Tb) for for backup ...
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bob_nestor wrote:
Sometimes the MBR gets trashed on a disk. It contains the disk partition setup and boot blocks if the disk is bootable. The good news is it's usually possible to restore the MBR by just running fdisk, provided you remember how the disk was partitioned. In this case I suspect the entire disk was allocated to be a FAT-32 partition and the remaining three disk partition entires were unused. You'll know if the MBR was blown when you run fdisk if it doesn't identify any FAT-32 partitions in any of the 4 slots. If this is the case then fixing it with fdisk usually causes the entire volume and its contents to magically reappear.
I have 3 disk not one and all 3 HD only have one partition and which is formatted as NTFS.
