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Harddrive problemsdisl (pg. 3)
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by sonix
hi guys and gals. i have a similar problem with one of my hard drives. i'm hoping someone can help fix it too.
it's an 80 gig seagate PATA hard drive.
it has a winxp installation in it.
it was clicking before (maybe due to power supply's insufficient power), so i panicked and turned off the computer, and installed a fresh winxp on a different hard drive.
then using the freshly installed winxp on different hard drive, i couldn't access my old seagate hard drive.
disk managment says that old hard drive is not formatted.
so i went into winxp recovery console and repartitioned and formatted that old hard drive. but the size appeared was 33 or so gigs of space only, which is the amount of free space left on that old hard drive.
so i can only partition and format the free space left on that old hard drive.
i know the remaining data is still on that hard drive, i think, i hope. i just cannot access or see it.
all my hard drives are PATA. it's an old computer with p4 2.4ghz.
any ideas?
any way i can get the entire 80 gig capacity back from that old hard drive? any way i can get that 50 or so gig of data back? |
this was another reason i asked karim how old his drive was and the brand.
you have already ed yourself. the best bet for you is to get encase and recover everything. other than that your screwed. did you write to the drive? if not then you MIGHT be ok but cant be for sure. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by sonix
i partitioned the remaining free space from that old hard drive. so yes i'm using that new partition of 30 gigs out of the total 80 gigs.
so can i still get my 80 gigs back or no? recovering data from it is 2nd priority, first being wanting to get my 80 gigs of capacity back. |
right click my computer and click manage. click on disk management. press alt+print screen. put the screenshot in here. |
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| biznology |
i was gonna say, clicking, BAD!!
but repartitioning is twice as bad. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by biznology
i was gonna say, clicking, BAD!!
but repartitioning is twice as bad. |
haha i totally was thinking that and just realized i didnt type that.
yes clicking = bad drive. yours is a lost cause imho. |
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| Lilith |
This seems to be an awful lot of effort to just save Karim's porn.
(Being Karim, it won't be good porn either, it'll be horrible! :eek: ) |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
This seems to be an awful lot of effort to just save Karim's porn.
(Being Karim, it won't be good porn either, it'll be horrible! :eek: ) |
Sweet jebus, I never considered that. :eek:
Should I tell my gf she was trying to help keep Karim's porn stash intact? |
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| biznology |
| but karim is so stylish and detail oriented...cant he handle himself?| |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
| quote: | Originally posted by biznology
but karim is so stylish and detail oriented...cant he handle himself?| |
LOL what?.. i leave this thread for a couple of hours and you guys are talking about my porn?.
anyways.. i put my harddrive back into my computer and its telling me there is an ntfs error when i startup. I can get to a command prompt on C using the recovery function with the xp cd.
So whats this fdisk thing? where can i get it.. can someone upload it.. is it small? If i can acess my C drive this may work no?
or should i re transplant the hard drive again? |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
This seems to be an awful lot of effort to just save Karim's porn.
(Being Karim, it won't be good porn either, it'll be horrible! :eek: ) |
your nudes that you sent me will be the reward for saving my drive. You shouldnt be so harsh on yourself :p |
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| BoReD365247 |
I might recommend using some kind of live cd or something to see if the data is still intact and you can still navigate the folders. That would give some sort of insight as to if the data is still there and if it is it would lead to the easier conclusion of just having messed up MBRs. I think it can be the MBR if you transplanted the drive and the MBR didn't detect the new drive and all of its partitions. I know we used to use a BART PE environment with a43 file explorer installed. Perhaps you could try a linux live cd and see if you can see the files/drive.
I don't think the SATA drivers/bios setting is the issue because it picks up the first partition and not the second. But it never hurts to check. |
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| Igaryok |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Hmmm, both C and E drives state that the file system in NTFS, but no file system shows for your G drive.
I don't actually know what that means though, sorry mate :(
Unless, when you initially created the partition, you chose FAT32 or something? I don't even know if that would make a difference.
I'll ask my gf when she gets back, maybe she'll know. She's a bit of a tech-ninja. |
:wtf: Where did you find a girlfriend with a brain? |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
| quote: | Originally posted by BoReD365247
I don't think the SATA drivers/bios setting is the issue because it picks up the first partition and not the second. But it never hurts to check. |
whats the sata driver bios setting?
i dont think it has to do with bios :p |
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