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#1: Mar 1 '07
Hi,
I lost D drive from my server.i don't know how it had happended.can anyone help me how to retrive it back.

what would be the possibilities to happen like this?

any one can help me?

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#2: Mar 1 '07

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You mean you lost the network mapping on your computer to the server, or the actual server is no longer showing one of it's hard drives?
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#3: Mar 3 '07

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Dear ,
thanks for your reply.

i had c: d: e: now i could see only c:

d: and e:(cd writer) is missing.

what would be the reason.i have no much idea about networking.Kindly help in small steps what and all i need to check?pls
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#4: Mar 10 '07

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Originally Posted by subashini Thiyagarajan

Dear ,
thanks for your reply.

i had c: d: e: now i could see only c:

d: and e:(cd writer) is missing.

what would be the reason.i have no much idea about networking.Kindly help in small steps what and all i need to check?pls

Is your disk partition and CD-Writer recognized by Windows? Please look at the Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc)
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#5: Mar 12 '07

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Sorry my friends,

when i opened the CPU only i understood the sceneario.it has two hard disk.
their is a cable fault so that it was not showing.

thanks for your reply.
bye.
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#6: Apr 13 '07

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Originally Posted by subashini Thiyagarajan

Sorry my friends,

when i opened the CPU only i understood the sceneario.it has two hard disk.
their is a cable fault so that it was not showing.

thanks for your reply.
bye.

Hello, Mr. Thiyagarajan!

You should be able to map it right back to your server

(1) Go to My Computer, or anything that'll bring up your tools mene
(2) Select Tools
(3) Choose Map Network Drives


Please write if this does not do it for you. Sorry for your troubles.

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#7: Apr 15 '07

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Hi Dokoll,

thanks for your reply.

what u are trying to say? if i see the mycomputer-> tools-> map network device->
then what i can see there?? i might watch the shared drives.

but i wanted to find out and shared drives are there in the local machine without opening it and thro' s/w.

Pls explain me in detail about your suggestion.

thanks
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#8: Apr 16 '07

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Originally Posted by subashini Thiyagarajan

Hi Dokoll,

thanks for your reply.

what u are trying to say? if i see the mycomputer-> tools-> map network device->
then what i can see there?? i might watch the shared drives.

but i wanted to find out and shared drives are there in the local machine without opening it and thro' s/w.

Pls explain me in detail about your suggestion.

thanks

You should have a set of drive letters to choose from whereby, in the top dropdown, you can choose D

After chosing D, you next option is to select, in the next dropdown below, the shared folder(s)...

Please note: If you're logged on as admin (your name, screen name or other as admin, added as such straight from the box) when you first boot up this machine, and you have a domain, you will need to, in the Connect using a different user name portion, add DOMAIN\username then password specific to that domain to be able to see the D drive,

Hit finish when you're done, and there's your drive D

Please write if this is not what you hoped to achieve
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#9: Apr 16 '07

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hi
I could not see c: d: e: drive at all in map network devices. I think I don’t have any admin rights. .

remaining all drives i could see.....

thanks for your good information
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#10: Apr 16 '07

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Originally Posted by subashini Thiyagarajan

hi
I could not see c: d: e: drive at all in map network devices. I think I don’t have any admin rights. .

remaining all drives i could see.....

thanks for your good information


to retrirve the information on your missing drive I suggest you to use Knoppix. You just download it and write it on CD... then you start your computer and may see your drives. Then you may get back up from your critical files on other machine like FTP server or whatever.

Then you may play with windows to get back your missing drives.

Amir.
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#11: Apr 17 '07

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Hi fatasticamir,

Even though it is not related to my question,thanks for your good suggestion.

regards
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#12: Apr 23 '07

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Quote:

Originally Posted by subashini Thiyagarajan

hi
I could not see c: d: e: drive at all in map network devices. I think I don’t have any admin rights. .

remaining all drives i could see.....

thanks for your good information

You can give yourself admin rights:

If this is your machine:

(1) Log in as Administrator (Type Administrattor in User name)
(2) Hit OK, you do not need a paasword here
(make sure Log on to says the right domain you need)
(3) Go to Control Panel
(4) Choose Users and Groups
(5) Add yourself, in Other option, as Administrators

Click ok, and try the info in my previous post again.

Please note: This works only if you know the domain that has the drives you need to map to. Your server should have had a domain already set to achieve this.

No worries, you can do this :-)
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#13: Apr 23 '07

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Hi Dokoll,

Thanks for your suggestion.

But without password how using

administrattor (is tt required) even correct spelling also it is not,
login even my standalone system also not allowing without password.how.....?

i am not getting.i am in spoonfeeding stage.pls explain me.
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#14: Apr 28 '07

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Quote:

Originally Posted by subashini Thiyagarajan

Hi Dokoll,

Thanks for your suggestion.

But without password how using

administrattor (is tt required) even correct spelling also it is not,
login even my standalone system also not allowing without password.how.....?

i am not getting.i am in spoonfeeding stage.pls explain me.

I will try to find you a tutorial. But question for you, do you the domain name?
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#15: Oct 12 '07

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hi
i had c: d: now i could see only c:

d: is missing.

what would be the reason.i have no much idea about computer hard ware can u help me pls

Kathafi
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#16: Oct 16 '07

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may be u have 2 drives physically.just unscrew the CPU and plug the bus(cables) and reconnect it once.it might help u.
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