Fixed Drive showing as Removable Drive

I have a slave drive (E that is now showing as a removable drive. I simply used it to store data, but now it's just showing as a removable drive.

Anyone ever dealt with this before? Know of a way to retrieve my data?

 

i'm assuming it's a sata drive? if so, i've been seeing alot of this lately. anyway, have you tried rebooting (to see if you can access your data)? are you getting an error message when trying to access/retreive your data (if so, what)? more details would help. what is your os, etc? - sos

 

You could try a Linux Live CD, such as Ubuntu or Puppy Linux. You should be able to gain access to your drive from either of these live CD's.

 

A reboot fixed it. I've got XP Pro as my OS, sata drive.

I wasn't getting an error message. Whenever I tried to access the drive, that had been renamed "Removable", i got a message that said,"drive not formatted, would you like to format?"

Don't know what happened, but I don't want it to happen again

 

Oh, the joys of Windows.