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09-11-2002
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| New on Forum Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary, Canada
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| My Hard Drive Wandered Off hello i mostly lurk but i have encountered a problem i hope someone can help me with. i put a second NIC in my computer abd when i turned it back on my second hard drive seems to have lost all of its data. windows xp can see the drive but when i try to access it, the comp tells me that the drive is unformatted and would i like to format. i put everything back to the way it was and i got the same error message. i have over 30 gigs of info on this drive that i really don't want to lose. is there a data recovery program that will recover this? specs: PIII @ 1 Ghz 256 mb ram drive 1 is 15 gig drive 2 is 40 gig dvd-rom cdrw Windows Xp Pro i really hope someone has seen this and recovered from it thanks kowboyup |
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09-11-2002
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| New on Forum Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary, Canada
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| fixed fixed it problem with the boot sector of the drive i guess had a cd with norton utilities on it and it fixed it right up guess i'll have to take back all the nasty things i ever said about norton thanks anyway kowboyup |
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09-11-2002
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| News Coordinator, Reviewer & Senior Moderator  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Republic of Ireland (North West)
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| I encountered many problems myself with Boot sectors going corrupt, mainly with Windows XP. Repartitioning and installing a boot loader (for dual boot) are the main causes for me having my boot sectors going corrupt on my main hard drive. If your primary hard disk's boot sector should go corrupt, i.e. PC won't boot, then use the Windows XP boot CD/disks, go into the recovery console and run the command 'fixmbr', confirm and then run the command 'fixboot', confirm and type exit. |
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