where did my hard drives go?

[minofifa]

hello,
sorry to repost but any help would be much appreciated. here is my problem:

"after i restarted all of my harddrives are not showing up. I used to have an F drive (half of the C drive partitioned), a G and an H drive both of which were 120 gig drives. the only one that now shows up is the C drive.
What the hell happened and how can i get my drives back? i can see them in the device manager and it says they are working correctly but i cannot access them in any way. I don't know much about SCSI, ATA,SATA, IDE etc... so don't ask me too complicated of questions. One thing i do know is that there is no RAIDing going on on my computer. When i look under the device controllers, there is a SATA/RAID controller but there is no SCSI controller, would this maybe be the problem? i have loaed the nforce CD and have checked for a SCSI controller but there is only the SATA/RAID controller.

Any help is much appreciated gents as my school work is on one of these drives.... "

Thanks again,

 

[sundev]

It sounds like you lost your partitions, is that correct? If so, one of these links might help, depending on your problem (make sure your problem matches what they have listed under "Symptoms":
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=245725
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153973/EN-US/

 

[loic2003]

whoa, before you start mucking around with a drive restore, first check that it's not simply a windows problem. For example, I had a very similar problem with my CD drives, all it needed was a short reg fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;320553

try the drives in a second computer to see if they are ok in there...

 

[minofifa]

ok, thanks i will give all of those links a read when i get home. I wouldn't think it is something to do with the individual drives not working, i mean how could 2 and a half drives all go wonky at the same time? isn't there something that controlls the drives? maybe that is messed up. thanks for the help