Re: Recovering data from a large SATA after XP reinstall

Yup

"*** Cardy" <ubetrap@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Kirk Dudley" <kdudley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Here's my problem:
> > I had prety much managed to kill XP, and needed to wipe and reinstall. I
> got
> > a 400GB WD SATA drive, plugged it in with no problem, and backed up all
of
> > my data to it.
> > I then unplugged it during the reinstall of XP to keep it out of harms
> way,
> > and then plugged it in once XP was up and running. However, This was the
> > original release of XP, and I failed to get all of the service packs on
> > before plugging the disk back in, so it only showed 128GB of the 369GB
> that
> > should be there. And it claims the drive isn't formatted.
> >
> > I shut down, unplugged the disk again, ran all of the updates, (SP2,
> etc.),
> > and tried again. Still no data, and still only 128GB showing, and
windows
> > still wants to format the drive.
> >
>
> Hopefully you have installed the motherboard SATA driver?
>
>


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