Re: Power surge corrupted hard drives. NEED HELP!!

NEED-HELP-PLZ wrote:

I have a Gateway 816GM,AMD Athlon 64 prossor 3400+,200GB HDD 7200 RMP
with 2MB cache,2MB DDR Memory,200GB Hard Drive(master,)80GB "SeaGate"
Hard Drive (storage),160GB Remote "SeaGate" Hard Drive (backup,) and
run with Windows XP
Pro. NOW THEN. Had a power surge an i had a test dun on it at
Circuitcity. they said my drives are corrupted an my power supply is
dead.Got new power,Got out my restore disk"5 of them",my GateWay 2000
com."kids com(#2) that is now mine,there so happy LOL".I have tryed,
restore, system restore,takeing out my slave and doing it all
over,putting it in com#2 as master an the same DLL Error for system
boot.BUT as a slave it will read on com#2 but with no partitions.So
the 200GB is in a box untill i get the 80GB working "The 200GB has
very importent stuf on it i have to save it".The 80GB I
have,restored,system restored"I have Windows on it also",reinstalled
backup,repartitioned it"3GB FAT32 an 7GB Active NTFS"that is all i had
unalicated,copyed an pasted Windows,backups an all of that. NOW IT
WILL NOT EVEN BRING UP !!DOS!! AN ON COM#2 I CANT EVEN SEE MY NEW
PARTITIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP PLEAZE !!!!!!!!!!! Any an all help,in
one month my job will be on the line for the stuf on my 200GB drive.

Good g-d! Your post is almost impossible to read. If you are asking
about getting data back on the 200GB drive, then here are some
suggestions:

1. I'm not going to plow through your stream-of-consciousness post to
try and determine if you are computer-savvy or not. If you are, then
boot with Knoppix to try and get the data off OR

2. Use data recovery software to try and get the data off. Easy Recovery
Pro and R-Studio are good.

3. If you aren't skilled, take the drive to a professional computer
repair shop (not your local version of BigStoreUSA) and have them
retrieve the data and show you how to back up.

4. If you don't have a competent computer repair shop in your area that
does data recovery, contact a professional data recovery firm. I prefer
DriveSavers (www.drivesavers.com) but there are others such as Ontrack
or Seagate Recovery. These firms' services are not inexpensive, but
only you can determine the value of your data.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"
.

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