Re: HD no longer recognizable by XP pro once used in XP Home

caterbro my-deja.com wrote:

Elora_Grace yahooo.com wrote:
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:20:33 GMT, John Doe <jdoe
usenetlove.invalid> wrote:

in yahooo.com wrote:


Is there anything I can do to have the drive back? I wish I
don't have to format and lose all data on it :(

The first thing you do is make a clone of the hard drive. If you
ever get back into Windows, you make copies of any important
files on your computer.

Good luck.
Thank you. Can I still make clone even though windows can't
access it?

not with windows. you can make an image of the drive with Ghost or
similar,

That's correct.


but the image will be as useless as the drive is currently.

That is very wrong.

Copy and paste is a fundamental part of computing. This is an
example where it can be very useful. When in trouble and before
trying to correct the situation, you make a copy so you can easily
restore and start over if things go wrong.


your drive no longer remembers what kind of partitions are on it.
cloning it would simply clone the "empty" disk. you need to
restore that memory in order to access the information in there.

That is horribly wrong. Since you screwed up in the first place, now
is the time to make sure you don't screw up any further.

This cannot be emphasized enough.

WHEN YOU RUN INTO PROBLEMS, THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS COPY OR BACKUP
WHAT YOU HAVE, ANYWAY YOU CAN, WITHOUT OTHERWISE MANIPULATING THE
DATA. THAT GOES DOUBLE FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE A COPY TO BEGIN
WITH.

Before you start messing with your storage media, make sure you have
copies.


the drive may have suffered physical damage; it may have had its
MBR scrambled, or etc. you may find that you cannot restore the
partitions at all, in which case

In which case you are basing your advice on a diagnosis you haven't
made.


you need to move to more extensive data recovery
software, like Spinrite or Stellar Phoenix or some such. these
check a disk bit by bit (literally:)) and recover available data.

The first thing you do before checking or trying to recover anything
is to clone the drive in order to back up any important files,
especially if you don't have any recent backup to begin with.

If Elora_Grace didn't have any important files, maybe that wouldn't
matter, but she does.







carl



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