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Posted by dRale on Jan-23-2006 03:06:

Hard Drive Problem... HELP!!

Hi guys, i am counting on you for this one as you've always been great help in the past.

My problem is this
I have 2 hard drives
main is SATA and the other one was on IDE channel 1 (primary)

i had data on the IDE hard drive, and today i put in another IDE drive as a slave under that one, yes i did all the pins correctly and all that. However when i turned on the computer, it saw both drives as unformated!!!
i freaked out as i have tons of ESSENTIAL data on my IDE 1, so now i took out the second IDE and made it all in the original setup..in other words
My main SATA is normal obviously, where windows is installed
and my IDE i had,,is still being viewwed as unformated! i did not format it! and when i start up the computer, it always recognized new IDE drive, but sais installation not successful because it is not meant for this platform..?

my question is...how do i get my data back!? / how can i view the files again?

i repeat i did not format the drive , the only thing i did is name the partition! aka give it a name.. G:/
etc..

HELP PLEASE!
thank you!

Posted by dRale on Jan-23-2006 03:24:

also, every time the computer turns on now, it sees the drive under my computer, but it in the start menu it always sais when windows starts: IDE driver found, problem during installation, driver not intended for this platform

Posted by Marc Summers on Jan-23-2006 03:25:

format

Posted by wizniz on Jan-23-2006 03:26:

lol

Posted by dRale on Jan-23-2006 03:28:

formatting is clearly not a solution as i have IMPORTANT DATA on the drive

Posted by Marc Summers on Jan-23-2006 03:28:

quote:
Originally posted by dRale
formatting is clearly not a solution as i have IMPORTANT DATA on the drive

porn?

Posted by Marc Summers on Jan-23-2006 03:30:

Have you tried the system restore?

Posted by Sunsnail on Jan-23-2006 03:31:

Is your computer plugged in correctly?

Try restarting it.

Posted by wizniz on Jan-23-2006 03:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Marc Summers
porn?

+0

Posted by Marc Summers on Jan-23-2006 03:33:

quote:
Originally posted by wizniz
+0

Posted by tribu on Jan-23-2006 03:34:

if you dont need what is on the second drive, you can boot with both IDEs.

The first IDE (g: ) is where your essential files are.

The Second IDE (h: ) is the second drive that started this mess.

Install a disk recovery utility (I reccomend R-Studio or R-Undelete) onto your SATA. Use the program to recover everything it can from G: to H:. You're then free to format G while using H to see what you can recover. You may not get everything back. I'm not sure why this happened to you.

There may be other solutions, so I wouldn't rush to try this

Posted by dRale on Jan-23-2006 03:39:

tribu, thanks for the help, and thanks for the link, im getting the demo now to try this,
you're right the G:/ has the important files on it, i took the second one out, so now its only the SATA and the IDE

Posted by igottaknow on Jan-23-2006 03:41:

dl recovery software see what can be recovered. I use http://www.handyrecovery.com/

Posted by tribu on Jan-23-2006 03:45:

quote:
Originally posted by dRale
tribu, thanks for the help, and thanks for the link, im getting the demo now to try this,
you're right the G:/ has the important files on it, i took the second one out, so now its only the SATA and the IDE

Whatever you do, make sure you dont use the recovery utility to recover files from g: to the g: Drive. I mean the physical drive, not simply partitions. Again, you will have to recover to a different physical disc, or you risk losing data.

Posted by dRale on Jan-23-2006 03:51:

ok, so far i am scanning G with the program
i'll let you know what happens
thanks a lot again!

Posted by dRale on Jan-23-2006 05:32:

got it!
thanks tribu!

Posted by Sunsnail on Jan-23-2006 05:32:

quote:
Originally posted by dRale
got it!
thanks tribu!

it worked? awesome congrats

Posted by Xenocreator_PG_ on Jan-23-2006 05:49:

How many flops does it have?