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

[atiVidia]

ok looks like my comp was slowly sliding downhill since i freed the 20 lost gigs...

windows slowly started to fail... and this morning, when i rebooted my comp, the whole system fucked: the windows directory corrupted...




shit




what do i do ppls!!???? (btw to VB im not sure if this should be in here or in softwareworld...

[Virtualbody1234]

Run disk diagnostics tools from drive manufacturer. Check their web sites. And if the drive passes the tests then format and reinstall your OS.

[atiVidia]

passed...


now my only issue is: how to recover the crap i lost...

[Mad Cat]

Originally posted by atiVidia@1 March 2004 - 18:07
passed...


now my only issue is: how to recover the crap i lost...
Some manufacturers provide lost data retrieval for a cost.

One of the Norton apps includes a "Protected" recycle bin from which you can recover files that have "gone beyond the recycle bin."

[james_bond_rulez]

it's time to give ur 'puter a proper burial :(

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@1 March 2004 - 13:17
it's time to give ur 'puter a proper burial :(
shut up <_<

r there any progs which recover data?

[cwctv]

Easy Recovery and its on BT never used it myself. :(

[Peerzy]

i trie dto use it on a file that the &#39;bin missed but found it hard to use because it changes file names and calls it loads of numbers, the only thing that stays the same is the filesize so your going to find it hard. Always back-up important things when adding anything hardware of a major software program ;) .

Spose thats not much help to you now though :lol: .

Peerzyboy :cool2:

[atiVidia]

<_<

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

[lynx]

With any of these recovery progs if it is your Windows partition it is important not to boot into windows before you recover the data. Otherwise your page file (and several log files) will probably get created on top of your missing files, then they will be lost forever.

[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. :blink:

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 :D

[atiVidia]

looks like i lied&#33;

the entire c drive corrupted :lol:


which means that my windows OS is still functional. (on an e:&#092; 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? :blink:

[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? :blink:
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&#33;


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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