Data recovery

sleeper

sleeper

Former LOD President
I just built a new system, and i'm having trouble getting it to recognize one of my old drives. I just put together an Athlon XP 2400+, with an Epox 8RGA+ motherboard, and a Western Digital 120 gig HD. But i'm having trouble getting data off of one of my old drives.

I have two other drives, a 40 gig Western Digital and a 15 gig Maxtor, that i had used for backup (which the 40 gig will be doing now). The 40 gig is working fine. But when i plug in the 15 gig (which worked fine yesterday morning), the BIOS recognizes it, and Windows knows it's there, but it's not showing up as a NTFS or a FAT partition. Partition Magic shows it as "other" and won't let me do anything with it. The drive is completely full, and it has plenty of stuff on it that i'd rather not lose.

So, does anyone know what i can do to get windows to recognize the drive? It worked previously under the same version of Windows (2000), but whenever i ran Norton Anti-virus, it said "unable to read boot record" or something to that effect.
 
RE: Data recovery

Im not to sure what to do in XP, but try this...

right click on my computer
left click on manage (you might have to just go into the control panel and go into administrative tools and look for something similar.)
on the left side of the new window that opens click on disk management.
let me know how the operating system sees the drive.

you might have no choice to format it especially if there is an OS on it.

or you can put it back in as the primary master and boot to it and trasfer the info to another pc. if you do not have an os on it you can always get a cross-over cat5 and connect it from netowrk card to network card and transfer that way - let me know how you make out.
 
RE: Data recovery

It sounds like the old and new computer configured the drive differently. like dm said, best bet would be to put it back in the old system to pull the data off.

If you want to pay for someone else to rescue it, I know two places here in the bay area I trust (they've done work for me) but they are not cheap.

Scott
 
RE: Data recovery

Disk management shows that it's there, formatted, and full, with no drive letter and an unknown formatting.

There is no operating system on the drive. It can't be reinstalled in the old computer, because there is no old computer, just a motherboard, processors, and a few PCI cards.

A friend suggested i reboot with the windows CD and go to the recovery console, and try FIXMBR or something like that. That's probably what i'm going to try. There's nothing critical on that drive, as long as my other copy of my quicken data isn't corrupt. But i'd still like to get my data off of it before i reformat it.
 
RE: Data recovery

Disk management shows that it's there, formatted, and full, with no drive letter and an unknown formatting.

There is no operating system on the drive. It can't be reinstalled in the old computer, because there is no old computer, just a motherboard, processors, and a few PCI cards.

A friend suggested i reboot with the windows CD and go to the recovery console, and try FIXMBR or something like that. That's probably what i'm going to try. There's nothing critical on that drive, as long as my other copy of my quicken data isn't corrupt. But i'd still like to get my data off of it before i reformat it.
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The disk is 100% fulle? You might be out of luck with that drive. But go back into disk management and check out the lower refrences to the available drives. Right click on the drive that isn't being detected and see if there are some options that might get you to wake it up. Maybe you can assign it a drive letter? However I have a very good feeling that you will be formatting that drive to get it to go. But you might want to try calling the maker of the hdd sometimes they have utilities you can run on the drive or one other thing, if you have some spare room, get a copy of partition magic and create a partition big enough to install an operating system. I would say 2 gig is plenty ~2048 mb. Let me know how you make out!
 
RE: Data recovery


Are you running the drive on the RAID interface or the conventional IDE interface?

We deal with stuff like this all the time.
 
RE: Data recovery

conventional IDE. I ended up getting it taken care of. My friend just changed a couple of jumper settings and hit "import foriegn drive" or something like that, and it recognized it.

Thanks guys.
 
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