oh no- updated some drivers - to HD's turned unallocated !

[rozroz]

hello again in trouble land!
after my bios & fan trouble, i took the chance of letting driver genius update the drivers. it found some realtec, nvidia and some more chip and intel stuff to update.
did a system restore.
now suddenly windows cant recognize to HD's on the system.
i went to manage- and it shows them as unallocated !!!
and now i it tells me there's no system restore point!

*i won't do a thing until you advise me !

please tell me there's no harm! :

 

[rozroz]

please, anyone? i'm about to take my special occasion clonex...

* these two HD's are IDE - the system drive is sata..
tried disconnecting them and let windows recognize them again but it's the same.
i cannot find any reason for them to be suddenly erased due to some driver updates,
so i'm still trying to be optimistic.
however, this driver genius "told" me it's doing a restore point - but windows claims there's none. what the hell happened?? couldn't find any help searching here or googling.
and no, i didn't back up my drivers.

 

[brianzion]

hi dont panic this happened after you updated drivers?

 

[brianzion]

have you data on the two drives? you may have lost it if so Right click the unpartitioned spaces and hit create partition.
It will partition, format, and assign a drive letter.

 

[rozroz]

hi dont panic this happened after you updated drivers?

yes, after that.
after the bios update they were fine

 

[rozroz]

ok i'm calm and ready for action

 

[fseal]

Try starting windows in safe mode and see if the drives become visible again....

 

[Purkinje]

tried disconnecting them and let windows recognize them again but it's the same.

I would try going to the manufacturer's website and getting the correct driver there. That way, you can be sure that you are using the correct driver. It's possible that Driver Genius installed the incorrect driver updates.

When you install the new drivers, please make sure to uninstall the current, broken drivers for those drives before installing the drivers from the manufacturer's website.

 

[rozroz]

tried disconnecting them and let windows recognize them again but it's the same.

I would try going to the manufacturer's website and getting the correct driver there. That way, you can be sure that you are using the correct driver. It's possible that Driver Genius installed the incorrect driver updates.

When you install the new drivers, please make sure to uninstall the current, broken drivers for those drives before installing the drivers from the manufacturer's website.

it's a mess, 17 drivers. first i need to know which one is responsible..

 

[brianzion]

when you updated the bios everything was ok then? its since you updated the drives then tried a system restore? have you the windows disk or a recovery disk?

 

[rozroz]

i didn't update the drives, sorry if misunderstood.
i updated SOME random drivers recommended by the genious..
did this a few times before..

 

[brianzion]

right the operating system is ok your two drives windows dont recognize go to device manager and see if the drives are there

 

[rozroz]

tried safe mode but they even don't exist there.
on full windows mode i can see them on disk management like the attachment above.
and they exist in device manager

 

[brianzion]

in device manager right click on the drives you have trouble with and go to properties and update drivers?

 

[rozroz]

windows deremined the driver is up to date

 

[fseal]

At this point, If I were in this situation I'd take the drives over to another working computer and try installing them there and see if they show up with my data. If they are blank there too then the solution may be in the realm of finding some disk/partition rescue software and trying to get the data restored...

But definately don't repartition or reformat the drives if there is anything you want off of them.

 

[brianzion]

try this windows fix :ar:Hardware devices are not working or are not detected in Windows

 

[rozroz]

. If they are blank there too then the solution may be in the realm of finding some disk/partition rescue software and trying to get the data restored...

oh dear....

 

[brianzion]

or uninstall the drivers for the 2 discs in device manager turn pc of unplug drives replug drives and re boot not the operating one

 

[rozroz]

try this windows fix :ar:Hardware devices are not working or are not detected in Windows

hardware changes might not have been detected