Automated System Recovery - help

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I have a two HD system.
The original HD was Win98 and it was "C:". no partitions.
I added another HD (160 gb) and made it as the primary boot drive. It has XP
Pro Service pack 2 and was designated as "F:". No partitions.

When ever I booted up, drive "F:" would boot and everything was fine. The
windows directory was F:/Windows as would be expected.
Last month I created a ASR backup with 4 floppies and 12 DVDs.

Last week the drive got corrupted and fails to boot.
I bought a new drive (200gb) and ran the recovery which was originated on
the original installation disks.
It formated 160gb of the 200gb drive and I spent lots of time feeding it the
floppies and dvds.
When all was over I attempted to boot from the drive and it would not boot.

I'd hate to loose all my data.

Any suggestions why this is happening?

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:22:02 -0700, "dave"

|I have a two HD system.
|The original HD was Win98 and it was "C:". no partitions.
|I added another HD (160 gb) and made it as the primary boot drive. It has XP
|Pro Service pack 2 and was designated as "F:". No partitions.
|
|When ever I booted up, drive "F:" would boot and everything was fine. The
|windows directory was F:/Windows as would be expected.
|Last month I created a ASR backup with 4 floppies and 12 DVDs.
|
|Last week the drive got corrupted and fails to boot.
|I bought a new drive (200gb) and ran the recovery which was originated on
|the original installation disks.
|It formated 160gb of the 200gb drive and I spent lots of time feeding it the
|floppies and dvds.
|When all was over I attempted to boot from the drive and it would not boot.
|
|I'd hate to loose all my data.
|
|Any suggestions why this is happening?
ASR may not have restored the partition as
Active(bootable). PM can do this 4 u.

HTH-Larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.