That Old Topic Regarding > 137 Gb Hdds And Xp...

[clocker]

Originally posted by atiVidia@1 March 2004 - 11:06


oh well, i guess im really fucked now...

Sorry to hear about your files, but it could be worse....the drive could be dead, too.

This is exactly why partitions are a good thing....

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by clocker@1 March 2004 - 13:11
This is exactly why partitions are a good thing....

And backups.

[bigdawgfoxx]

I love having 2 partitions

[atiVidia]

looks like i lied!

the entire c drive corrupted


which means that my windows OS is still functional. (on an e:\ drive)
im working on recovering it now...

[_John_Lennon_]

You dont have another hard drive you can boot using, and then just set up the 160GB drive as a slave and just view the files? and maybe burn them to CD?

ANd its a bit hard for me to understand, but I take it you had to reinstall windows because of a supposed corrupted drive? If so, why didnt you leave the current file system intact, instead of reformatting, so all your data, non windows related would still be there?

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by _John_Lennon_@1 March 2004 - 17:39
You dont have another hard drive you can boot using, and then just set up the 160GB drive as a slave and just view the files? and maybe burn them to CD?

ANd its a bit hard for me to understand, but I take it you had to reinstall windows because of a supposed corrupted drive? If so, why didnt you leave the current file system intact, instead of reformatting, so all your data, non windows related would still be there?

fixed it

lennon i figured that out b4 u posted it. i hooked it up to another comp, and when winXPhome on my friends comp booted, it automatically repaired the hdd


then i moved it back. lesson learned: install service pack 1!


now, vb i hope this isnt against the rules, but could some1 pm me a sig2dat link to an activation-hacked full sp1 install?

[Rat Faced]

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