I restarted my computer, and lost one of my partitions on a SATA drive. I can
still see it in disk management, but when I try to assign a drive letter or a
drive path to it, I get a error message:

The operation did not complete because the partition or volume is not
enabled. To enable this partition or volume, restart the computer.

I have restarted it, but it still shows the same problem. Also, when I look
at the disk properties from device manager, it does not show that
partition(volume) until i click the populate button. But if I click OK and go
back to the same tab, the volume is gone again. I do not want to reformat the
drive, as it has 200 GB worth of data that took years to collect.

"hodayathink" <hodayathink@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:374AB050-D68F-4922-BF27-3DB5956C440D@microsoft.com...
In view of the sheer amount of data you should hand this
disk to a recovery service. Anything you do will increase
the risk that the data is permanently lost.

It is possible that you may have to consider this unfortunate
event as a stark reminder that all important data must be
backed up to an independent medium at regular intervals,
eg. once a week. Disks are cheap, data is expensive or
even irreplaceable.

Okay, so the plot thickens.

I ran a program that I downloaded from the creators of the drive (Maxtor),
and it told me the drive was corrupted. So I took it in to where I bought it
to get it replaced, and to see if they could get the data. And when they
plugged it into their test computer, it worked fine. Perfectly fine. I still
got a replacement, since it didn't work on mine. And when I got back and
installed the hard drive on my computer, it won't show up anywhere but on the
RAID controller's device info. This is a brand new drive, so there shouldn't
be anything wrong with it. Has anyone ever encountered anything like this?

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: