Lost 30 Gigs of Hard drive space

[Vassy]

I recently purchased a new computer with windows vista home premium as an OS. After playing around with the new windows vista tools. I noticed that the service applications alone where taking 43% of my total memory (seems ridiculous considering I have 2 gigs of Ram). So I decided to tweak around the services.

My computer was partitioned by default into 3 hard drives. 2 hard disk drives, and the other 30 gigs where labeled as a removable drive.

As a result, Once I was done tweaking the services, nothing too wild, just disabling the unnecessary stuff I realized I disabled a service that managed the virtual/removable drive. This then caused the removable hard drive to disappear.

I then tried doing a system restore and set the services back to default, but the virtual drive still hasn't appeared. Anybody have any suggestions of what I can do? should I just go back and format my computer? its brand new so it doesn't have any worthwhile documents/applications.

 

[lobbyone]

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[Vassy]

Um i don't think you quite understood me. Due to my tweaking of the services I lost a hard drive with 30 gigs in it.

 

[Steve]

LOL. Reformat and start from scratch. And don't go tweak-crazy on the services. Many are better left on.

 

[Arcex]

I honestly don't know if it will help but try right clicking on your "My Computer" and clicking "Manage". Then click "disk management". See if that 30 gig drive is listed in there, maybe it's something simple like it's drive letter was lost and putting it back on will bring it back, worst case it may be there listed unformatted space or possibly just plain screwed up, either way as long as it's there in some way you should at least be able to re-format it and start over.

If there were files on their you needed you might be able to run data recovery software on it to grab some stuff before the format.

And next time, listen to sm8000 and take it easy on the services...