re: data recovery
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 7:53 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Don't let the XP machine near that drive until you have recovered everything you
want off of it. Use the Windows 98 machine only, as it should be able to read it.
As the BIOS sees the drive, you know the basic disk drive hardware is working.
That is good. It most likely means that the disk drive partition information is damaged.
The best way to handle this is to use a Windows ME startup or boot diskette. Hope
you have one. You can make one on any Windows ME system in Add/Remove Programs icon
in Control Panel. Use the Startup Disk tab. The Windows 98 startup diskette will
work, just the Windows ME one is much better.
Make sure the drive is jumpered as the IDE Master and the ONLY disk drive plugged
into the system and boot from the startup diskette (test it on your working Windows
98 system first). Once booted to the DOS prompt, try running SCANDISK C:
to see if it can access the disk drive. Most likely not as windows can not see it,
then DOS will not.
Next run the DOS FDISK program (answer Yes) and select the option 4 to
display partition information. If it does not show this, then the master boot record
is damaged and there may be no hope for recovery without advanced tools. At this
point you can exit FDISK and run it to repair the master boot record. Run FDISK
/mbr command. This only works on the C: disk drive, as master and why you want
to try this with only that drive connected to a system. With luck, it will allow
you to reboot and access the drive.
To do data recovery if that does not work, requires programs like Norton's Disk
Doctor or others, and these require some degree of experience using them.
- Written in response to:
- data recovery (beaujames: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 5:55 am)
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