My drive F is gone

[yannecantik]

Hi guys,
I think I might have a serious problem. This morning, suddenly my drive F is gone. Disappeared from the drive list.
This drive and drive D were infected from virus that requred me to format them. I think it might be trojan horse. Is there a way to fix this problem?

FYI, drive F and drive E is on the same hard drive, but drive E is still alive.

Thanks guys,
Yanne

[Cricket]

Please provide more information.

What kind of computer is this? Home built or name brand?

What are the complete system specs? List the parts by brand and model including the power supply.

Which version of Windows are you using?

Are the hard drives recognized by the BIOS?

Have you tested the hard drives with the manufacturer's diagnostic utility yet?

Cricket

[glc]

What does Disk Management say about the drive?

[yannecantik]

Sorry about that. I was panicking. Still am.

Specs:
Mobo: asus P4P800E deluxe
CPU: pentium4 3.0 ghz
RAM: kingston 512MB PC3200 DDR 400mhz (2x256mb)
Video card: XFX GeForce FX 5500 256mb
PSU: ultra x-connect 400w ATX
Case: cooler master centurion 5
Operating system: Windows XP home edition
Hard drive 1: maxtor 60 GB
Hard drive 2: Seagate 80 GB ultra ATA/100 7200 RPM

I haven't tested the hard drives with manufacturer's diagnostic utility yet.

I don't know what to do.

What do you mean by this "Are the hard drives recognized by the BIOS?"

I can only access half of the hard drive. I partitioned the hard drive into two drives, now one of them is disappeared.

I'm sorry for sounding so clueless. I AM clueless.

Please tell me what else that I need to do.

Thanks,
Yanne

[yannecantik]

What is disk management? And how to check on this?

I'm sorry guys, I really don't much about computers. I hope you guys can tolerate this

Originally Posted by glc What does Disk Management say about the drive?

[yannecantik]

Btw, now drive D is gone as well.

I am running the manufacturer's diagnostic utility test, I don't know whether I'm doing it right or not. But the tool can only read drive C and E.

I am very frustrated now. And scared. I feel that my computer might crash. Seems like this virus or whatever this is, is eating my hard drives.

Here's what initally happened. I think my computer got a virus infection. The virus attacked drive D first.

Before I go any further I think I should mention how I partitioned my hard drives.

Maxtor HD is drive E & F
Seagate is drive C & D

I put operating system on drive E and C. But I currently using drive E. I store my documents on drive C actively.

While I put archieve on drive D and F.

I notice that there's something wrong with my computer when the name of drive D suddenly became 'LOCIL DISK' indstead of 'local disk.' Then everything that's on that drive was corrupted. Even the name of the files and folders were messed up. I formatted the hard drive.

Then on different occasion, I noticed the same thing happened to drive F. I formatted drive F. And those drives are gone now.

[Cricket]

To check in Disk Management right click My Computer and choose Manage. When the Computer Management box appears, click on Disk Management.

Did you somehow delete the F: partition? If you think you did, then you just have to recreate it with Disk Management.

How did you format the drives? If you didn't use Disk Management, what did you use?

Cricket

[yannecantik]

I checked disk management. It only reads drive C and E. There's another drive that's 'unallocated' and the capacity is only 7 GB which is odd because I know it should have more capacity than that.

I formatted the drives by right clicking each drive when you go to my computer. Then I select 'format.'

I don't think I delete the partition. I wish that's the case though

I am still trying to figure out what's going on. Then it occoured to me that maybe I could delete the partiotion using disk management. I right click the healthy drives C & E, and I couldn't seem to click on 'delete partition' option.