From time to time when I start up my computer, the E: partition is “missing”. The data is still there, and I can recover it by fixing the partition tables, but I’m curious as to why this might be happening, and it definitely doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling to continue on this way, as E: is where My Documents is located. Disk Management shows the partition as healthy but unformatted. Trying to access E: brings up a dialog that says that E: is not formatted. Note that the C: partition on the same physical disk (and from which Windows boots) has never been affected. The disk is a 250GB SATA disk on SATA channel 0. There are two IDE devices on IDE channel 0; a hard disk and a DVD drive. Windows XP Professional SP2.
Basically, I’m trying to determine what is causing this, and any help you can give would be appreciated.
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