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Old 08-02-03, 05:24 PM Thread Starter   #1
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Oh man, have I got a problem


Hi all.

I have an 80 gig in a pull out that I had just taken out to allow me to copy some stuff off another HD. After putting the 80 back in, XP now thinks the drive is not formatted !?!!! So I tried what I could (not much - download R-Studio for possible recovery - it looks like it will only see about 30% of what was there plus it costs $50.00)...

Does anyone have any ideas? It was only 80 gigs worth of mpeg movies, dvds and home videos ...

Please help !

Thanks in advance.

Tad

btw, its not a bios issue
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Old 08-02-03, 06:48 PM   #2
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I'm not much for Hard Drive info, but are you using the 80GB HD by itself? If you are I'd recommend putting in another HD as the master, and try running this as the slave, and see if that will work.

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Old 08-03-03, 07:02 PM   #3
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Does it think its not formatted or not bootable? Its possible that somehow the partition with all of your data is not longer marked as the primary partition. This would cause you to not be able to boot, even if all your data is there safe and sound. Try booting off of a floppy and see if you can look at the stuff on your hd.
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Old 08-04-03, 01:48 AM Thread Starter   #4
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Well, it thinks its not formatted... These are drives e: and g:. I have discovered (and verified) that File Scavenger will be able to save the data, but the prog costs $40 so I have been trying alternative means without too much success.

Worse case is drop the $40 and be happy I don't have to try to replace 120 gigs worth of mp3s and mpegs.

If anyone knows of a good FAT32 salvage program that is less than $40 and can read off my RAID 1 array, please let me know.

Thanks again,

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