Re: Recovering Data From A Hard Drive

That is the kind of info we needed. Being a WXP machine increases the
chances that it probably used standard PC partitioning and formatting.
Unmountabe Volume indicates that the master boot record or partition table
got messed up. There are utilities that can fix this kind of stuff. It is
possible the directory also got messed up, but there are utilities to
attempt to fix that too.

Depending on how important the pictures are, you may want to make an image
with Norton Ghost or Acronis before starting the recovery.

Hopefully someone will jump in here with some actual experience. If not,
start a new thread with a title something like 'need help recovering files
from unmountable volume', and include the info you presented in this
message.

-Paul Randall

"Saucer Man" <saucerman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not sure of the partitioning as I haven't seen this yet. It is at a
friends and he wants me to get some photos from the drive. The drive was
in his windows xp box but the PC would not boot one day. He stated it
came up with a BSD with a message similar to Unmountable Volume. He has
since installed a new drive in his PC but wants me to extract some
pictures from the old drive. I have this USB hard drive enclosure and
thought it might be helpful. I have been reading that people get a
message "Access Denied" when trying to copy data from Windows XP drives.
The company that manufactured the enclosure wasn't any help. They said be
sure to set the jumpers on the drive to MASTER. They also said that the
drive has to be formatted after the enclosure is connected to the PC! I
told them this defeats the purpose.


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Thanks.


"Paul Randall" <paulr901@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you are doing this with a WXP computer, it should automatically
recognise and assign drive letters to partitions formatted with standard
PC type formats, like NTFS, Fat32, and Fat16. It will probably not
recognise Linux or Mac partitions or formats. It will also probably not
recognise non-standard formats like those used a few years ago to allow
using large hard drives with BIOSs that couldn't handle large hard
drives.

What is the partitioning and formatting of the drive in question?

-Paul Randall

"Saucer Man" <saucerman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok. If there is NO driver letter, I can right-click and select CHANGE
DRIVE LETTER to give it one?

How about if I install the drive inside the PC? Will this be easier? I
also don't want to get into issues where I cannot copy the files off of
the drive I am adding because of permission issues.

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Thanks.


"Ghostrider" <-00-@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Saucer Man wrote:

The last time I tried this...XP saw the partition but did not assign
it a drive letter. At that point, I followed the steps in Disk
Management and I ended up formatting it. I don't want that to happen
this time. If XP doesn't recognize it, can I assign it a letter
without formatting it?



Don't know why that would happen. We do this all the time and either
the
drive letter(s) are assigned or we can do it through Disk Management
just
by right-clicking on the icon for Disk 2 (or whatever) and then
clicking
on the Change Drive Letter and Path line. The Edit feature is used to
change the drive letter.

Whatever happens, do not allow the HD to format.









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