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the volume does not contain a recogniszed file system
Name: Scott Date: October 18, 2000 at 13:43:51 Pacific
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I have 17 GB drive partitioned into 4 partitions 2 5 5 5 . I formated C:\ and was trying to load win98SE OS- I had a few probs but when i got things to go I found that I couldnt access any of the drives and couldnt c the disk at all - I now had the drive install as slave on my NT4.0 PC and still nothing but the above subject msg - the problem is I have about 13 GB of data on the disk (will this b lost? I hope not) could some1 please guide me on the steps I can take to recover this, Cheers :)
Name: FJ Date: October 18, 2000 at 15:44:22 Pacific
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I would use my emergency boot disk and set a different partition as the active one. After you boot using a Win95/98 emergency boot disk you will come to a screen that offers to start the system With or Without CD-Rom support choose WithOut(only because it loads faster). At the A:\ type "FDISK" and hit enter. Read the next 2 pages if you want but get to the 3 page and select option 2(I think) set active partition. After you do that you will need to look at the next screen to decide which one you want to be your boot-up OS. Just follow the instructions.
If you have 4 OS's on your system one of them has to be good still.
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Response Number 2
Name: Andrew Date: October 18, 2000 at 16:57:40 Pacific
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I have that problem with my 40gb every now and again. After it gets filled to 30gb it can no longer be recognized as a fat32 partition. Basicly i had to fdisk and start over. It turns out my Motherboard did not support anything bigger than 36gb. (I told the bios nothing was there and let windows find it.) I was able to flash the bios and it will now correcly report my 40 gig drive. Go to your motherboards web sight and see if it will support the 17 gig hd. (Some older ones will not recognize more than 8.4 gig's per hd.) Good Luck.
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Response Number 3
Name: Alvin Chua Date: April 5, 2001 at 18:30:04 Pacific
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I have a two HD which configure as volume set now become unknown, so I use lost & found application to recover my data not all but most of it.
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