Disk Not Detectable

[Pooky]

Hi, one of my hardrives isn't detectable by windows 7. In the Disk Management I can see it there but there are crossed out lines through it and it says Disk Failed....

This comes after trying to split the drive into two partitions by shrinking it.

 

[Conradl]

How did you shrink it?

 

[killadoob]

Don't tell me you used the compression in windows pooks?

 

[Pooky]

Yep I used Windows 7's disk utility.

 

[killadoob]

Why o why would you?

Format the drive and never shrink the thing again.

 

[Pooky]

No I cant format it there are important stuffs on it!!!

 

[TheRift]

Apparently not any more.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Moral of the story : backup your data BEFORE doing a partition resize.

 

[bekdik]

Moral of the story : backup your data BEFORE doing a partition resize.

+1

Expand: Backup your data. Regularly!

Seriously, buy yourself a USB drive and make sure you back, especially before some kind of system change.

 

[Pooky]

How on earth do I backup 100gigs on a USB drive?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

How on earth do I backup 100gigs on a USB drive?

Aye... that's the problem

 

[killadoob]

Well pooks you buy a 500gb external drive.

How do you recover 100gb's of info when your drive dies dude? 100gb of data will take at most 3-5 hours to copy, a dead drive with 100gb of lost data will take how long to get that data back?

 

[PostmanPot]

How on earth do I backup 100gigs on a USB drive?

Get a 128GB flash drive.

 

[bekdik]

How on earth do I backup 100gigs on a USB drive?

A Seagate Freeagent gives up to 640GB these days. The 200GB versions aren't too expensive.

 

[Park@82]

How on earth do I backup 100gigs on a USB drive?

Get a 128GB flash drive.