C
Chris Fearon
Today was not a good day. It started out fine, but then
disaster. I am using XP Professional with a 30 gig
master hard drive and have a 30 gig secondary hard drive
(FAT 32) where I have been saving additional files. The
secondary drive used to be a primary drive under Windows
98. Everything had been working fine. I then read an
article in PC World that talked about back-ups and using
the back-up program that comes with XP. I thought maybe
I should reformat the secondary drive as NTFS to minimize
turbulence between drive formats. So I copied all the
files on D: over to a folder on C:. That was easy. Then
I used XP to format D: with the NTFS. That was easy
too. Then I cut and pasted all the files that were
originally on D: and moved to C: back to D: That was
easy as well. All the files were recognized on D: (3
gigs of data on the 30 gig drive). Then I decided to do
a full back-up of C: to D: I had only 10 gigs of data
on C: to back up, so there was plenty of room on D:. I
started the process and then disaster struck. A yellow
warning triangle showed up in the icon try saying
something to the effect that a file was corrupted and
that data was lost. I figured it was the back-up file,
so no big deal. Then the back-up menu locked up and I
had to push the reset button as Ctrl-Alt-Del did
nothing. On boot up, the computer BIOS/CMOS no longer
recognized a secondary drive. That's bad!! Of course
once XP loaded, no D: drive was seen there either.
That's bad too!! I tried to use Maxtor Powermax 4.06
utility in the A: drive (even changed the boot sequence
in the BIOS set-up to first seek A: then HD-0) and the
boot process just blew by the Powermax diagnostic without
loading. So now am big time stuck and out of ideas. Can
anyone help with this one.
disaster. I am using XP Professional with a 30 gig
master hard drive and have a 30 gig secondary hard drive
(FAT 32) where I have been saving additional files. The
secondary drive used to be a primary drive under Windows
98. Everything had been working fine. I then read an
article in PC World that talked about back-ups and using
the back-up program that comes with XP. I thought maybe
I should reformat the secondary drive as NTFS to minimize
turbulence between drive formats. So I copied all the
files on D: over to a folder on C:. That was easy. Then
I used XP to format D: with the NTFS. That was easy
too. Then I cut and pasted all the files that were
originally on D: and moved to C: back to D: That was
easy as well. All the files were recognized on D: (3
gigs of data on the 30 gig drive). Then I decided to do
a full back-up of C: to D: I had only 10 gigs of data
on C: to back up, so there was plenty of room on D:. I
started the process and then disaster struck. A yellow
warning triangle showed up in the icon try saying
something to the effect that a file was corrupted and
that data was lost. I figured it was the back-up file,
so no big deal. Then the back-up menu locked up and I
had to push the reset button as Ctrl-Alt-Del did
nothing. On boot up, the computer BIOS/CMOS no longer
recognized a secondary drive. That's bad!! Of course
once XP loaded, no D: drive was seen there either.
That's bad too!! I tried to use Maxtor Powermax 4.06
utility in the A: drive (even changed the boot sequence
in the BIOS set-up to first seek A: then HD-0) and the
boot process just blew by the Powermax diagnostic without
loading. So now am big time stuck and out of ideas. Can
anyone help with this one.