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| 147974 | 2003-05-27 09:45:00 | I have a problem with a second hard drive in my set up. All was working fine, both hard drives were recognized and working fine. Then after having a software problem I decided to format my main hard drive and reload XP Pro etc. All is working fine apart from second hard drive. Under "Computer Management"..."Disk Management" the drive is there but it describes it as "unallocated". On asking a friend he thinks I may have also formatted this drive also. I have info on the drive I would like to recover it possible... Any suggestions. System: M-board Asus A7S333 Athlon XP1800 Maxtor 4d040h2 primary HD 40gig (working fine) Seagate ST3421A 4gig (problem) Opp system XP Pro. |
stukiwi (3887) | ||
| 147975 | 2003-05-27 10:02:00 | You friend is partially right, you've deleted the file system from the HDD, which is sorta like the first stage of some formats. You'll need to create a file system (FAT, FAT32, NTFS) on that drive, then format the file system... You may be able to get the data back still though.. Knoppix might work.. Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 147976 | 2003-05-27 12:09:00 | Either data recovery or restore the boot sector record from the backup. If none of this makes sense then employ a professional. |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 147977 | 2003-05-27 23:21:00 | Merlin> Data recovery would require a proffessional stukiwi> Try and get hold of a Knoppix CD, I know I have a ton of the babies that I sell cheaply to all my friends. It's bootable Linux, and basically Ive used it just yesterday for something similar. I was dual-booting Win2K and Win98 on a PC, I wanted to remove the 98 partition with Partition Magic.. So I was rebooting it and it was about to perform its 'magic' when it came up with NTLDR missing or corrupt, and the primary partition had been deleted already.. I booted into Knoppix, restored the data from the Second partition to a network drive, and I was peachy :-) Format the whole HDD and start from scratch with my data safe and sound on a networked drive :-) I do agree, that if this is above your head, take it to a proffessional repair shop. In honesty it should take them no more than 20-30 mins to get the data off the HDD, format the secondary drive and put it back, unless you have huge amounts that would take a while to transfer! Hope this helps Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 147978 | 2003-05-27 23:25:00 | Unlearned friend from Dorkland > Read before replying, and Use spell check before posting |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 147979 | 2003-05-27 23:36:00 | Oh sue me for spelling professional wrong! *Feels like the world is going to end due to the extra f that has entered this world!* |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 147980 | 2003-05-28 02:04:00 | Chill, Chill. It is just a phase that some people must go through on life's journey. Sort of an androgynous-menopausal thing, but this too shall pass and we will all live happily ever after. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D [pre][b]Either that or it's the phase of the moon.:p |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 147981 | 2003-05-28 06:03:00 | yea your friend could be right, or the two different hard drives may not be sutable with each other, i would get 2 of the same kind ie 2 seagate hard drives. | Patrick 2003 (277) | ||
| 147982 | 2003-05-28 06:29:00 | There you go again. Teaching the young folk what you know best. | Snaggle Puss (3696) | ||
| 147983 | 2003-05-28 10:38:00 | TThanks. Perrssonaly II could not give a FFFFF how many ffff are in profffffeshional. or is that profesanal |
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