WD hard drive partition wont work! help!

[Ender510]

I have a 160 GB western digital hrd drive. i had it partition into 3 drives sizes being 10 GB, 40 GB, 100 GB. I had a TON of data on the last drive and that is no longer accessible.

I am using win2k and when booting up, the whole computer freezes. Beause I didnt know what was going on, I ended up disconnecting the hard drive and adding as another drive for my XP box. I can access the C, D and backed up the data I want from there. however, whenever i go to 'my computer', it locks up. I can see the drive thru Windows Explorer as 'N' which is the letter it assigns (c and d are L and M), whenever i double click or right click on the N drive (whic his the 3rd partition), nothing comes back. I tried going thru disk manager and it just shows the drive as being healthy.

Any ideas or suggestions? I have a lot of data i need on that 100 GB drive. Thanks in advance.

 

[aGreenAgent]

try chkdsk n: /f

 

[montag451]

Did you manually set the drives up with those letters, or not?

How many other drives have you got in your system [including optical drives, and virtual drives ie alcohol/nero]?

 

[Ender510]

I had setup the drive letters in the original system, but when the hard drive is hooked up to the other system (setup as secondary drive since it wont boot) it assigned those letters. so thats why i state the old letters and new ones.

 

[Ender510]

Originally posted by: aGreenAgent
try chkdsk n: /f

I tried this and it doesnt come back and the command prompt just closes. Any other ideas?

 

[lansalot]

On the latest service pack? Could be the 137gb limit...

 

[Ender510]

no, has nothing to do with the limit. I am on winxpsp2. in adiditon, the other drives work fine.. just the last paritiont which was 100 GB. not 'accessible' anymore. any help??

 

[stockjock]

Have you tried using Western Digital's Data Lifeguard?

 

[theMan]

this happened to me with an entire drive. i put it in another computer, and installed it, when i rebooted, ir ran a program, chkdisk i think, this made it accessable. try the data lifeguard. otherwise use another program to do it. theres lenty of them out there. sorry i cant think of any right now.

 

[Ender510]

i also get a weird error msg stating the semaphore timeout period has expired..