I think I lost "It All"
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From: I can walk to MA
I think I lost "It All"
Bad news .... my home PC decided to take a dive, just as I was starting to burn all my stuff to CD. Key word : starting.
I lost ALL my vette pictures, not to mention all the pics that I have ever
taken over the last couple years. I DO have some old pics somewhere
on CD - where, I don't know yet.
So, does anyone have pictures of mine that they may have downloaded
and saved ? Even better, if you archived whole threads with the pictures
in the archive.
I'm desperate. I'm still trying to recover the data, but hope is dwindling.
Please, if you have any of my pics, email them to me. THANKS !!!!
dave@NHvette.com
I lost ALL my vette pictures, not to mention all the pics that I have ever
taken over the last couple years. I DO have some old pics somewhere
on CD - where, I don't know yet.
So, does anyone have pictures of mine that they may have downloaded
and saved ? Even better, if you archived whole threads with the pictures
in the archive.
I'm desperate. I'm still trying to recover the data, but hope is dwindling.
Please, if you have any of my pics, email them to me. THANKS !!!!
dave@NHvette.com
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From: Orlando Florida
St. Jude Donor '05
If your computer 'dies' all the data on your hard drive may be still there. I had the same problem, Windows just wasn't starting... you can install a different harddrive, install Windows and boot, then access the second (old) slave harddrive from there. Or just install the old harddrive in a different computer as a 'slave' harddrive. It is a pain but I was able to save all my data.
From that time on I always use a seperate harddrive for the operating system and the 'slave' for data.
Good luck.
From that time on I always use a seperate harddrive for the operating system and the 'slave' for data.
Good luck.
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Yeah - already tried several variations of this, but still trying.
It tries to boot - fails on NTOSKRNL.EXE - so I know the drive can be read.
Funny, when trying to fix or reinstall W2K, it thinks the partition is bad.
I'm gonna keep at it, maybe even look to purchase some software that
will help recover from the raw data.
Thanks, guys (and gals) for helping out.
It tries to boot - fails on NTOSKRNL.EXE - so I know the drive can be read.
Funny, when trying to fix or reinstall W2K, it thinks the partition is bad.
I'm gonna keep at it, maybe even look to purchase some software that
will help recover from the raw data.
Thanks, guys (and gals) for helping out.
Originally Posted by RedBad1979
If your computer 'dies' all the data on your hard drive may be still there. I had the same problem, Windows just wasn't starting... you can install a different harddrive, install Windows and boot, then access the second (old) slave harddrive from there. Or just install the old harddrive in a different computer as a 'slave' harddrive. It is a pain but I was able to save all my data.
From that time on I always use a seperate harddrive for the operating system and the 'slave' for data.
Good luck.
From that time on I always use a seperate harddrive for the operating system and the 'slave' for data.
Good luck.
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St. Jude Donor '05
My experience is that if you try to 'fix' the drive and try to boot from it then it's only making it worse.
Take this drive out and move the jumper so it is a 'slave'
Buy a new HD (cheap, some $40 deal) and re-install Windows on this new 'primary' drive.
Then recover your data...
Take this drive out and move the jumper so it is a 'slave'
Buy a new HD (cheap, some $40 deal) and re-install Windows on this new 'primary' drive.
Then recover your data...
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From: Umeå Sweden
Originally Posted by RedBad1979
My experience is that if you try to 'fix' the drive and try to boot from it then it's only making it worse.
Take this drive out and move the jumper so it is a 'slave'
Buy a new HD (cheap, some $40 deal) and re-install Windows on this new 'primary' drive.
Then recover your data...
Take this drive out and move the jumper so it is a 'slave'
Buy a new HD (cheap, some $40 deal) and re-install Windows on this new 'primary' drive.
Then recover your data...
Thats even easier then taking it to another computer
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From: Foxfield CO 1970 Convertible
Originally Posted by RedBad1979
My experience is that if you try to 'fix' the drive and try to boot from it then it's only making it worse.
Take this drive out and move the jumper so it is a 'slave'
Buy a new HD (cheap, some $40 deal) and re-install Windows on this new 'primary' drive.
Then recover your data...
Take this drive out and move the jumper so it is a 'slave'
Buy a new HD (cheap, some $40 deal) and re-install Windows on this new 'primary' drive.
Then recover your data...
This is the quickest and cheapest solution.
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Dave,
Do the slave thing as suggested and if you still can't see the drive, I'd be willing to take a look at it for you. Have done several "recoveries" lately with good results using several different software packages that read the drive directly w/o using the OS.
Good Luck!
Do the slave thing as suggested and if you still can't see the drive, I'd be willing to take a look at it for you. Have done several "recoveries" lately with good results using several different software packages that read the drive directly w/o using the OS.
Good Luck!
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From: Living in the Hartland
Originally Posted by RedBad1979
My experience is that if you try to 'fix' the drive and try to boot from it then it's only making it worse.
Take this drive out and move the jumper so it is a 'slave'
Buy a new HD (cheap, some $40 deal) and re-install Windows on this new 'primary' drive.
Then recover your data...
Take this drive out and move the jumper so it is a 'slave'
Buy a new HD (cheap, some $40 deal) and re-install Windows on this new 'primary' drive.
Then recover your data...
Went through this about a year ago myself, I copied all the files from the old drive to the new drive, did lose a few but most are functioning. I think the part of the drive that was housing Windows went bad.
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From: Twin Cities Minnesota
Originally Posted by w1ctc
There are companys that specialize in rcovering data from
bad HD's.
bad HD's.
Also try slaving it on a Linux box, esp if you are using fat32 ( not sure about NTFS etc) linux isn't better per'se but different. Sometimes that will worl also...