Hard drive restore

[Guest]

The hard drive in my laptop had an "unmountable boot volume" error. It was
caused by over heating to the mobo. I have removed the hard drive and put it
in an external enclosure.
When I connect it via USB to another computer and click on My Computer, it
shows up as a drive. When i click on this drive, it shows an icon of a
padlock and says Compaq Restore.
I have the recovery console cd. What I am afraid of, is this: If I put
the recovery cd into my working computer, is it defaulted to the C drive?
That is not the drive I want to fix. Does the recovery cd give me the
option to to select another drive?
Also, is there a way to "unlock" the drive without running the restore disk?
I would like to copy files from the HD before it is formatted?
Robin

 

[Guest]

Maybe have a look here.

"STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" Error Message When You Restart
Your Computer or Upgrade to Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185

 

[DL]

What size is shown in My Computor for this drive?
And what details are shown in Disk Management?
If its showing a Compaq Restore Icon it might suggest that this is the
hidden restore partition.
The recovery cd will not - I'm allmost certain - run/work from another PC

 

[Dave Cohen]

What size is shown in My Computor for this drive?
And what details are shown in Disk Management?
If its showing a Compaq Restore Icon it might suggest that this is the
hidden restore partition.
The recovery cd will not - I'm allmost certain - run/work from another PC

I agree, the recovery cd is designed to only work on model with which it
is supplied although it's possible it might also work on close sister
models. I also agree you may be seeing the hidden 2gb drive.
I would do this, visit www.terabyteunlimited.com and download bootitng
(I think they call it bootit next generation). Create a boot cd or floppy.
When you boot with that you will get a screen for install, hit cancel.
You will then enter maintenance mode. If the usb drive is not recognized
under partition work, go into settings and check usb 2.0 support and try
again.
Partition work will show all the drive and partition info for the system
and depending on what you see you can take it from there.
Dave Cohen