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Please somebody help...
I'm stillrunning Win XP Pro Corp w/SP1 on most of my machines but have
about 15 or so IDE Hard Drives ranging in size from 80Gig thru to 300Gb
that I removed for one reason or another, either when a system crashed
or to connect up directly to another XP Pro machine... and I now can't
get them to be recognised in Wndows Explorer on any XP or W2K system
and in device manager it just states that the drives are there but are
'unformatted' and offer to format the drives!
These are all Data drives with no operating system on them but have an
enormous amount of recorded digital tv data and photo's etc. on them
which I don't want to lose... like several Terrabytes worth... plus
numerous other downloaded programs etc. that were being stored on the
drives!
PLEASE!!!!!!! How can I get the NTFS partition to again be recognised
by Windows XP/SP1? I can't afford to lose that much data , and can't
afford to buy new hard drives to replace them all in order to use
recovery type software to transfer the data across to as I have
CFS/Fibro Mylagia which leaves me housebound in alot of constant pain
and only on a meager $11,000 (Australian Dollars - or approx. $7.500 US
Dollars) to cover everything including all my medical costs, which
includes paying for a carer 12 hours each day.
Is there any cheap way for me to get Windows XP Pro to again recognise
these drives that have a single NTFS partition on each of them and be
able tp use them again without reformatting and losing all my data?
Hoping for an answer...
Linton. (Downunder in Sydney, Australia)
I'm stillrunning Win XP Pro Corp w/SP1 on most of my machines but have
about 15 or so IDE Hard Drives ranging in size from 80Gig thru to 300Gb
that I removed for one reason or another, either when a system crashed
or to connect up directly to another XP Pro machine... and I now can't
get them to be recognised in Wndows Explorer on any XP or W2K system
and in device manager it just states that the drives are there but are
'unformatted' and offer to format the drives!
These are all Data drives with no operating system on them but have an
enormous amount of recorded digital tv data and photo's etc. on them
which I don't want to lose... like several Terrabytes worth... plus
numerous other downloaded programs etc. that were being stored on the
drives!
PLEASE!!!!!!! How can I get the NTFS partition to again be recognised
by Windows XP/SP1? I can't afford to lose that much data , and can't
afford to buy new hard drives to replace them all in order to use
recovery type software to transfer the data across to as I have
CFS/Fibro Mylagia which leaves me housebound in alot of constant pain
and only on a meager $11,000 (Australian Dollars - or approx. $7.500 US
Dollars) to cover everything including all my medical costs, which
includes paying for a carer 12 hours each day.
Is there any cheap way for me to get Windows XP Pro to again recognise
these drives that have a single NTFS partition on each of them and be
able tp use them again without reformatting and losing all my data?
Hoping for an answer...
Linton. (Downunder in Sydney, Australia)
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