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Re-nstallied w/ slave drive
Name: Marco Date: November 25, 2005 at 07:44:04 Pacific OS: Home XP CPU/Ram: 2 - 512K
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I have re-installed XP on a new hardisk and have kept another drive on the system that was always set as slave. The problem: The slave drive shows up in "my computer" but if I double click it asks if I want to format it. I have a lot of data on this slave drive and do not want to reformat. If I try to access from the command prompt - shows message file not recognized. The bios is showing the drive there correctly and the jumpers are set correctly also. There is nothing wrong with this drive other than after re-installing XP on the master drive, the slave is now unrecognized. I am out of clues here. Any suggestions?
Name: jubalsams Date: November 25, 2005 at 16:22:48 Pacific
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Uh, actually, there may be a fix with something like Partition Table Doctor (~$40).
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Response Number 7
Name: street1 Date: November 26, 2005 at 17:42:42 Pacific
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297694 Have you tried this site from microsoft support starting at work around?
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Response Number 8
Name: Marco Date: November 27, 2005 at 06:58:50 Pacific
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No, I had not been at this link. I tried changing the drive letter to a higher letter, as suggested, but still behaving in same manner. Good link tho. However, in the disk management section, the drive in question reads "healthy drive" ???
I downloaded a couple of file recovery programs and it seems that they can only recover picture related files.
There's gotta be some global file recovery programs around.
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Response Number 9
Name: street1 Date: November 27, 2005 at 12:54:48 Pacific
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http://www.pcinspector.de/download.asp?language=1#file_recovery Have you tried this one?
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Response Number 10
Name: Marco Date: November 30, 2005 at 05:09:36 Pacific
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I tried it, but it only recovers graphics files. I have other files on the drive that I need thet are not graphics files.
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Response Number 11
Name: street1 Date: November 30, 2005 at 15:03:59 Pacific
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http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdisktools.html The one at this site called EaseUs Disk Copy may solve your problem.
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