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Hard Drive will not boot, Need Data
Name: zero-degrees Date: February 8, 2004 at 19:07:44 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: AMD 2700 / 512 DDR
Comment:
Today windows decided to lock up on me. Upon doing a hard power down and boot up the computer would not boot. When I power on the computer I get an error message of non system disk. I pulled the hard drive and installed it into one of my other computers as a secondary drive. When the os boots I am able to see my bad hard drive or at least the d, e, and f drives on it. However it shows my c drive but says "drive is not formatted" when I try to view whats on it... So I have a bad c: drive that windows says isn't formated and shows it only as a "raw" drive and I have data that I have to get off of it... Any ideas anyone???
Name: sam2 Date: February 8, 2004 at 19:45:53 Pacific
Reply:
Ontrack's 'Easy Recovery Pro' (http://www.ontrack.com) and PowerQuest's 'Lost and Found' (http://www.powerquest.com) are excellent recovery programs.
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Response Number 2
Name: Wawadave Date: February 8, 2004 at 22:02:57 Pacific
Reply:
hello your other computer you slaved this drive to it xp as well? if its 95-98-m.e it wont read xp,s ntfs as they are fat and only read fat.
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Response Number 3
Name: TopFarmer Date: February 9, 2004 at 07:40:39 Pacific
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Hi you say the drive C: can not be read ?? that would be your main hdd that you booted to, the master not slave. or are you saying what would normaly be C: on the secondary hdd ?
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