Re: Recover Data

Hi,

My advice: Take it to a reputable shop. What you likely have is either a
drive geometry problem or a corrupted file system. The first can often be
recovered by disk editing tools like mbrwork from terabyteunlimited.com, the
latter may possibly be recovered by running chkdsk, but before either are
done I would strongly recommend that the drive be imaged. If you are
comfortable with these operations, then proceed but otherwise I would
recommend a professional (who, by the way, will likely not guarantee against
loss of data, they just have a better chance of recovery than a casual
user).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Gibgo" <Gibgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5B43D77C-1AE3-425D-BDD4-B1E1D6B4081A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi I cannot access my hard drive neither can it boot up, its Windows XP
SP2.

Started when I shut it down by holding power button, & manually shutting
down.

Its visible in Windows Disk Management & My
Computer. But is inaccessible.

Disk Management shows it as Healthy (Active) but under File System nothing
is listed.

When I try to do a repair via Windows Installation it recognises the
partition but next to it is written (Uknown)

Please advise how to retrieve info.

Thanks


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