Re: Lost partition on 320GB HD and corrupted date on 250GB HD

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I did that already, Windows XP SP2 recognizes my 320GB as 2 partitions. The
first partition is 130GB (no files) and 170GB (unallocated) and it tells me
that the drive is not formatted. My 250GB hard drive is also recognize but
with corrupted files. I hope I could recover my files. :c

"JS" wrote:

Remove the two SATA drives, re-install XP (with SP2 as it's required to
support large drives), make certain that as installed Windows can see you
two smaller drives OK. Then power down and re-connect one of the two SATA
drives, boot and verify Windows properly recognizes the drive, if so then
power down and connect the remaining drive.

JS

"IJVelas" <IJVelas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C359F672-6082-46B0-9FCB-6338E812A8ED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi! I posted this on the general section thread and am posting it here in
the
hardware section because I feel that I will get more answers here coz my
problem is more related to restoring file on hardware.

My computer setup before reinstalling a fresh copy of WIndows XP is P4 2.8
Ghz on a Intel PERL Motherboard, 1GB RAM, 128MB Video, Partitioned PATA
80GB
Seagate (C: 40GB, D: 40GB) hard disk, SATA 250GB hard disk (E:), SATA
320GB
hard disk (F:). Installed is Windows XP SP2 with the latest updates by
Microsoft. This setup is already a year old so I've decided to reinstall
a
fresh copy of Windows XP. After successfully installing a new Windows XP
SP2
from Windows XP (No SP), I couldn't access my 320GB hard disk and
everytime I
boot up my WIndows XP scandisk always run. I always cancel the scandisk
because I'm afraid that I might loose my valuable data if scandisk
corrects
the problems found by scandisk.

Windows XP tells me that my 320GB hard disk is not formatted. I opened
Computer Management to see the list of drives and found out that my 320GB
hard disk is only detected as 130GB hard disk but in the BIOS it says
320GB
hard disk. After doing some research on the net, I found out that Windows
XP
doesn't automatically support large hard drives greater than 130GB (I
think).
I edited the registry and added DWORD EnableLargeLba = 1 then rebooted my
PC. After the reboot, Windows XP still reports that my 250GB hard disk
has
problems. Opened Computer Management again and checked my hard drives.
Computer Management now reports that my 320GB hard disk has 130GB
(healthy)
and 170GB (unallocated).

I also lost some data and corrupted files on my 250GB hard disk.

I think the cause of this was Windows XP automatically reconfigured the
partitions on my hard drive since it doesn't support large hard disks
greater
than 130GB.

Is it still possible to recover all my data on my 320gb hard disk and
250gb
hard disk drives? What should I do? I am sure that my hard drives are
working in good condition because I just bought them a few months ago.

Thanks



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