RE: Can't access hard drives
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 05:13:23 -0700
Andrew E. wrote:
Such terrible, destructive advice that I'm completely snipping it. Fsck
off Andrew! Enough! If the OP followed your advice, he would lose
everything. He said he wanted to *save* his data, not destroy it you
stupid fool.
"SmittyBC" wrote:
Smitty, I'm going to be honest with you. Your post is very difficult to
read. I've left it in unsnipped in case someone else has the patience
to wade through the stream-of-consciousness writing. Next time use
paragraphs, bullet points, or the like to make a clear, concise post.
Every time I try to read it my eyes glaze over.
From what I can gather, you have some data on an 80GB hard drive thatcan't be read by Windows. Put the hard drive in a different machine and
if it is seen in the BIOS, boot with Knoppix to get the data off. If
you don't have a second machine, take the computer to a professional
computer repair shop that also does data recovery. This will not be
your local version of BigStoreUSA. Whatever you do, don't follow Andrew
E.'s advice.
Until recently I was running Win XP Pro on an Asus motherboard with
an Athlon 1333 with my Western Digital 80GB as Primary (with OS) and
a 20GB Quantum for storage. I just replaced the motherboard with an
Asus A8V and an AMD 3000+. It booted as far as Windows and then just
kept cycling through reboots. I tried booting off the Windows CD and
going through setup. When it gets to the part where it recognizes the
partition and there is an existing OS there, it asks if you want to
overwrite and if you agree then it should just overwrite and you
won't lose your files (what I want). But when I agree and it goes to
the next screen, it says Windows doesn't recognize the partition and
I have to go back and delete the partition to install (no thanks). I
tried using the WD Diagnostic Tools and Lifeguard and they say it is
a healthy bootable drive with no problems. I finally just partitioned
and formatted my 20GB Quantum thinking that I will just install
Windows on it, retrieve my info from the WD, then I could wipe that
and copy everything back. When I got the 20GB up as primary and 80GB
as slave I opened Windows Explorer. It showed the 20GB as C: and my
CDROM, no WD. Checked My Computer, same thing. Checked Device Manager
under "Disk Drives" and it showed both, the Quantum and WD. If I
right-clicked on Quantum and clicked "Properties" I got all the info.
When I clicked on "Properties" for WD nothing happened. Under "Disk
Manager" in "Advanced Tools" it shows both HDs. C: Disk 0, 20GB,
Basic, Online, NTFS, Healthy (System). (No drive letter)Disk 1, 80GB,
Basic, Online, NTFS, Healthy (Active). If I right-click on the WD
drive the only option not grayed out is “Delete Partition”. The WD
does show up in the BIOS. I would really, really, really like to get
my info off of this drive before wiping it, or ideally, just get it
up and running but I just cannot think of anything else to try. Any
information or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bruce
Malke
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