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I am trying to recover data from two old IDE drives. Drive1 has been successful, but something is wrong with Drive2. It does not appear as a drive letter.
Due to limited legacy hardware, the only way i can see these drives is to boot using windows 7 setup and goto the command prompt. Without going further as to why, my question is how i can access the data in this command prompt.
I discovered DISKPART command and while a first time user, it looked like something that can fix my problem. Here are the results of my diskpart commands. At the bottom is a image of the commands taken with a camera.
The Drive2 is present because when using the diskpart command, I can see it.
- How can I copy the information using a robocopy script if the drive letter is not available?
- how can I assign a drive letter?
- Is there any repair command I need to execute?
When i execute DISKPART, the following is what i see.
DISKPART> LIST DISK
Disk### Status Size Free
Disk 5 Online 37 GB 2048 KB
So then I select disk 5.
DISKPART> SELECT DISK 5
"Disk 5 is now the selected disk"
When I list partition
DISKPART> LIST PARTITION
Partition ### Type Size
Partition 1 Primary 101 MB
Partition 2 Primary 37 GB
So I select partition 2
"Partition 2 is now the selected partition."
I then try to assign a drive letter
DISKPART> ASSIGN LETTER=G
"There is no volume specified."
"Please select a volume and try again."
When i list volume the drive is not present.
DISKPART> LIST VOLUME
Result of the above commands
Connect the drive and see if it's detected by the BIOS. If not, there's probably not much you can do save use a professional data recovery service (if the data is important enough for you to spend a lot). – Karan – 2012-12-04T23:46:46.827
it is listed in the bios – Valamas – 2012-12-05T05:08:42.520
Then try a Linux LiveCD/USB. – Karan – 2012-12-05T16:56:55.553