Windows 7 Please help in recovering my lost drive

[john1921]

hi friends,i have just now installed windows 7 rc on my computer,but during installation i have accidentally clicked Load driver button(at the stage where it asks for partition,format,new,load driver,etc) and then my D drive button and came back and continued with my installation.After complete installation When i opened my computer there i have seen that my d drive is missing( I had 3 drives c,d and e before installation).That d drive is of 20 gb and it contains very important information,All my college projects and passwords and userids was in that drive and now it is lost.When i checked in disk management that drive is shown with actual used space and in its status it is showing as Healthy (SYSTEM,active,primary partition) ,but i cannot see it or open it to take its backup,

Please friends please help me in getting my d drive back.please,i really need it.
Thank you

HI friends, I recently installed windows 7 on my pc,but during installation I clicked some load driver button at some stage and I think due to that my D drive has been changed to system drive from primary partition and now I am unable to see or access that drive.
Please help me in getting that drive back friends.It contains all my college related projects and some other very important files and i will totally hate to loose it.
Thank you very much in advance.

 

[epk1950]

Try this

Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery - Home

http://www.partition-recovery.com/

not 100% Gar.

 

[john1921]

Thank you epk1950.I will definitely try it.If anyone can give more information about it,it will be really great.
Thank you,

 

[kemical]

hi friends,i have just now installed windows 7 rc on my computer,but during installation i have accidentally clicked Load driver button(at the stage where it asks for partition,format,new,load driver,etc) and then my D drive button and came back and continued with my installation.After complete installation When i opened my computer there i have seen that my d drive is missing( I had 3 drives c,d and e before installation).That d drive is of 20 gb and it contains very important information,All my college projects and passwords and userids was in that drive and now it is lost.When i checked in disk management that drive is shown with actual used space and in its status it is showing as Healthy (SYSTEM,active,primary partition) ,but i cannot see it or open it to take its backup,

Please friends please help me in getting my d drive back.please,i really need it.
Thank you

When you open disk management will it not let you assign a new letter for your d drive?

I've also combined your two posts as double posting is not allowed and will not get your answer any quicker..

 

[john1921]

no it is not assigning any letter to it in disk management.plz friends plz help me in it,I need it a lot.

 

[john1921]

When you open disk management will it not let you assign a new letter for your d drive?
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It has not assigned any letter to it.This is the screen shot.plz help me ASAP.

 

[Joe S]

Try right click on disk management and run as administrator then right click on drive and assign it a letter.
Joe

 

[SIW2]

no it is not assigning any letter to it in disk management.plz friends plz help me in it,I need it a lot.

Disk Management will not automatically assign a drive letter.

Did you right click the partition and ask it to assign a letter?

Otherwise, use Diskpart - or a free partition manager like this one to assign a drive letter - then Apply

Partition Wizard is a Windows based FREE Partition Manager. It works as partition magic and supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 server and Windows 7. FREE for Home and Business user.

If it is indicated as hidden - select unhide - then Apply

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