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542671 2007-04-20 11:25:00 "\_(*_*)_


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and here's what happened to me.....


using an external usb caddy

now; disk A inside caddy

swapped hard drives

now; disk B inside caddy

restarted windows 2000 (sp4)

scan disk starts during reboot

loads of mad text scrolling

windows starts with over 60G of disk B missing


er, help¿?


i was thinking maybe there is a recovery util

or something like that¿?¿?


now; disk B has loads of "what appear to be

windows generated files" on the drive in a

folder called "found.000"


inside this folder are more folders called "dir0000.chk"

and files with the same extention ".chk"


now; some of the folders from drive A,

also now appear on drive B
seeing (12166)
542672 2007-04-20 13:57:00 i think this may work . . . . . . .


. ericphelps . com/uncheck/" target="_blank">www . ericphelps . com



just trying it now
seeing (12166)
542673 2007-04-20 14:42:00 ok, just ran a util....

R-Studio Data Recovery

http://www.r-studio.com/


I ran a "scan" of disk B in the software


Now the old partitions/folders appear in the

"Drive List" of the software


When i run the "Recovery" tool on the new found

partitions, it converts them back into their

original state (some 70G)


So now i'm going out and getting abit oh la la

cuz this happened abpuit three months ago now

and i have been trying to fix it ever since
seeing (12166)
542674 2007-04-21 04:48:00 You were lucky . :D

I don't think W2K killed your disk . You did it .

I wonder how you "restarted" Windows . Did you hibernate it before changing disks, or did you just change the disks while "not doing anything"? Either is guaranteed to cause severe damage to a file system

If you change system disks, you [i]must[/b] REBOOT from the different disk . Many of the directories, and other essential system data are kept in memory . If the disk they refer to isn't there, the rep[lacement will get zapped .
Graham L (2)
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