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[Guest]

Ok this is a long one so please bear with m

I recently bought a SATA drive for use on my pc. I wanted to leave two IDE drives for storage and multiple boots. Anyway i installed the SATA and XP home on it now worries. I then set about loading all the updates (great fun on a dialup) anyway as i was going through these everything seemed to be going well so during the restarts copied over a number of files from my old desktop and OS such as outlook files, photos, music and other personal stuff with no worries and everything going fine. After one of the updates suddenly everything started going wrong. Not sure which one it was. May also have been caused by the loading of Adobe reader which was loaded at the same time. Also a virus checker was loaded and found a nimda virus in the restore files so turned them off to get rid of that

Anyway then my problems started. When loading up the front screen for XP it just stalls at the scrolling line which shows under the XP home screen. Could not do anything to get it started. Even safe mode wouldnt run Stall ats MUP or some driver. So tried doing a repairinstallation with the XP disk and now it wont recognize my password so cant access it to restore it

Anyway the crux of my problem is i want to copy my stuff back to the old IDE drives so i can reformat the SATA drive to start again. I can see the files using a couple of linux and dos boot discs but cant find anything to copy them off with to the IDEs. Does anyone know what i can use. I really dont want to lose this stuff. Especially my photos from over the years

 

[Nick Burns]

Is your sata drive formatted fat32 or NTFS, can't believe you did not back
up you family pictures to cd...!

Ok this is a long one so please bear with me

I recently bought a SATA drive for use on my pc. I wanted to leave two IDE

drives for storage and multiple boots. Anyway i installed the SATA and XP
home on it now worries. I then set about loading all the updates (great fun
on a dialup) anyway as i was going through these everything seemed to be
going well so during the restarts copied over a number of files from my old
desktop and OS such as outlook files, photos, music and other personal stuff
with no worries and everything going fine. After one of the updates suddenly
everything started going wrong. Not sure which one it was. May also have
been caused by the loading of Adobe reader which was loaded at the same
time. Also a virus checker was loaded and found a nimda virus in the restore
files so turned them off to get rid of that.

Anyway then my problems started. When loading up the front screen for XP

it just stalls at the scrolling line which shows under the XP home screen.
Could not do anything to get it started. Even safe mode wouldnt run Stall
ats MUP or some driver. So tried doing a repairinstallation with the XP disk
and now it wont recognize my password so cant access it to restore it.

Anyway the crux of my problem is i want to copy my stuff back to the old

IDE drives so i can reformat the SATA drive to start again. I can see the
files using a couple of linux and dos boot discs but cant find anything to
copy them off with to the IDEs. Does anyone know what i can use. I really
dont want to lose this stuff. Especially my photos from over the years

 

[Nick Burns]

If your old IDE has windows on it, being your old boot drive, set it back to
master and boot from it.

Ok this is a long one so please bear with me

I recently bought a SATA drive for use on my pc. I wanted to leave two IDE

drives for storage and multiple boots. Anyway i installed the SATA and XP
home on it now worries. I then set about loading all the updates (great fun
on a dialup) anyway as i was going through these everything seemed to be
going well so during the restarts copied over a number of files from my old
desktop and OS such as outlook files, photos, music and other personal stuff
with no worries and everything going fine. After one of the updates suddenly
everything started going wrong. Not sure which one it was. May also have
been caused by the loading of Adobe reader which was loaded at the same
time. Also a virus checker was loaded and found a nimda virus in the restore
files so turned them off to get rid of that.

Anyway then my problems started. When loading up the front screen for XP

it just stalls at the scrolling line which shows under the XP home screen.
Could not do anything to get it started. Even safe mode wouldnt run Stall
ats MUP or some driver. So tried doing a repairinstallation with the XP disk
and now it wont recognize my password so cant access it to restore it.

Anyway the crux of my problem is i want to copy my stuff back to the old

IDE drives so i can reformat the SATA drive to start again. I can see the
files using a couple of linux and dos boot discs but cant find anything to
copy them off with to the IDEs. Does anyone know what i can use. I really
dont want to lose this stuff. Especially my photos from over the years

 

[Guest]

the sata drive is formatted NTFS. I didnt think to back everything up because it had been working ok for a couple of days before it all crashed on me. The IDE drives are still fine. Ive been working back on them since it happened which was over a month ago. Just been struggling along by myself when i gave up

 

[Guest]

That was another thing i tried. working on the master and trying to access the SATA as a slave becasue the admin password was the same as my old one so i may have been able to access it. but when i try to boot this way it just stops at startup and says missing NTLDR and reboots

 

[Guest]

I know one way you could retrieve the data, but the nimda virus can be a little tricky, you might need to send the drive to someone who can use an override program to kickstart the drive and backup the Valuable data to cd. This is called computer forensics and can be quite costly. After the data is rescued, the drive must be wiped (LBA), partitioned, formatted, and reloaded. Also, it is a good idea to stick with one OS if possible.

 

[Guest]

I dont know that it was the virus that caused the problem. It seemed to be more something corrupt stopping me from getting to the log in screen. Can anyone shed some light on what the MUP driver would be that it stalls on when i try to start in safe mode

 

[Bick]

ok new question in regards to this same problem in the
hope of fixing my dilemma. As i know the admin password
and the username used can i do a complete system reinstall
and it wont overwrite the desktop where my files are
stored. Or will the desktop be re-written.

Alternatively can i boot of my IDE which uses the same
username and admin password and access the files. I tried
to do this but i got an NTLDR missing when trying to boot
with the SATA still connected. Boots fine on the old IDE
without the SATA. So if i can access the files this way it
may be easier to try to copy my stuff back that way

 

[Guest]

ok new question in regards to this same problem in the
hope of fixing my dilemma. As i know the admin password
and the username used can i do a complete system reinstall
and it wont overwrite the desktop where my files are
stored. Or will the desktop be re-written.

Alternatively can i boot of my IDE which uses the same
username and admin password and access the files. I tried
to do this but i got an NTLDR missing when trying to boot
with the SATA still connected. Boots fine on the old IDE
without the SATA. So if i can access the files this way it
may be easier to try to copy my stuff back that way

-----Original Message-----
Ok this is a long one so please bear with me

I recently bought a SATA drive for use on my pc. I wanted

to leave two IDE drives for storage and multiple boots.
Anyway i installed the SATA and XP home on it now worries.
I then set about loading all the updates (great fun on a
dialup) anyway as i was going through these everything
seemed to be going well so during the restarts copied over
a number of files from my old desktop and OS such as
outlook files, photos, music and other personal stuff with
no worries and everything going fine. After one of the
updates suddenly everything started going wrong. Not sure
which one it was. May also have been caused by the loading
of Adobe reader which was loaded at the same time. Also a
virus checker was loaded and found a nimda virus in the
restore files so turned them off to get rid of that.

Anyway then my problems started. When loading up the

front screen for XP it just stalls at the scrolling line
which shows under the XP home screen. Could not do
anything to get it started. Even safe mode wouldnt run
Stall ats MUP or some driver. So tried doing a
repairinstallation with the XP disk and now it wont
recognize my password so cant access it to restore it.

Anyway the crux of my problem is i want to copy my stuff

back to the old IDE drives so i can reformat the SATA
drive to start again. I can see the files using a couple
of linux and dos boot discs but cant find anything to copy
them off with to the IDEs. Does anyone know what i can
use. I really dont want to lose this stuff. Especially my
photos from over the years