Re: OT: Recovering an NTFS drive

On Sep 30, 8:01 pm, clippertyclop <bend...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 30 Sep, 18:05, Poldie <Pol...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





I've been `handling` Windows for over 10 years. What I can't handle
is booting from the XP CD to get the repair console up, and having it
simply reboot part way through loading up, and taking out one of my
drives. That's hardly blaming Windows for the sake of it. This isn't
the only reason I want to give Linux a go - I've been urged to do so
for years and have resisted partly out of stubborn laziness, and
partly because when I've tried in the past I couldn't get online
because apparantly you can't use USB broadband modems (specifically
the Thompson speedtouch 330 which comes free with some UK ISPs).
Also, I had a nice 3d card a few years ago which wasn't supported
properly (or at least, I couldn't get it working properly). I don't
care about 3d now, and I don't mind stumping up £60 or whatever on an
ethernet card/router if it will help. I've had several other recent
problems with Microsoft where the way you're expected to resolve them
simply isn't good enough - this particular problem is just the last
straw. Most of the data on the disk was backed up so I've not lost
anything vital. I just don't need this any more!

First go into BIOS and check whether your drives are being correctly
recognised.
What type of drives are they? For a start AFAIK you can't 'scandisk'
with WinXP. It will fail if you try to. Perhaps you meant 'chkdsk'.
But that won't fix problems with partitioning anyway. The problem with
your disks is that possibly the 2nd one was not partitioned properly
in the first place. Is the data still backed up from there?
Boot from the sytem disk to recovery console. You said the pc loaded
up the drivers, then rebooted. So you never got as far as recovery
console then? You should get a DOS like prompt.Then select C:\ drive
and chkdsk /r . It will take a while to finish and check for any
errors reported. I've never heard of a pc automatically rebooting
from recovery console. If the pc rebooted while loading up the drivers
there' might be a hardware problem, in which case the process might be
autonatically interruped.

I've formatted it now - got fed up with the whole thing. After it
happened last time I stepped up my backup procedure so I have
practically everything. Last time meaning I reinstalled windows on
drive c. It left drive d alone, even though it's just another
partition on the same drive, but trashed f, a seperate drive on a
seperate IDE channel.

I didn't get as far as the recovery console - that's what I was
booting up the windows disk for. The drive is a 300gb western digital
ide drive on the secondary IDE socket. But it wasn't visible to
windows as a mapped (with a letter) drive, although the `computer
management` app could see it as a `not initialized` drive - ie exactly
how a new drive looks before you've formatted it for the first time.


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