From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jordan Halsey To: Subject: Help please Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:24:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <001301c125ff$50a28180$a300a8c0@nhv> X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00856.html I have been running the cygwin tools on Nt for the last year or so and recently had a major problem and before I re-install the tools I have a few major worries. What seemed to happen is that after a hard crash I got a blinking cursor and my system refused to recognize my system drive even though the symbios drive utility could see the drive and verify that all sectors were undamaged but still unrecognizable as a drive that could be used by my system. This immediately made me think of the cygwin tools and how they set mount points. Due to time constraints I took the machine to my VAR, had a new drive put in and re-installed NT. I should also say that the VAR that I use is very pro and they could do nothing for the data on my drive or explain what happened just that the drive was inaccessible and that they would have to re-format the drive. I told them to just leave it alone. The drive is a a 9 gig barracuda in two 4.5 gig partitions. Now that I have a new drive as a c: drive this drive has become my f and g drives f is what was previously used as my system drive so I reformatted that drive with no problems but left the g drive untouched with the hopes that there might be a way to recognize the drive again and retrieve any un-backed up info. Any advice on how to do this would be greatly appreciated even if its , no way and I have to reformat and loose all info. My other question is, what could possibly have happened that would cause my drive to be in a stable (no bad blocks or sectors etc) place and yet be unrecognizable? Do I run risks such as this in using the cygwin tools on NT? ( I love these tools and do not want to give them up) Is there something that I could have done to prevent this? TIA, -- Jordan Halsey maya|shake|prman|eias|formZ|ae Parallax Visuals http://www.parallaxvisuals.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/