Help! I have completely lost two hard drives

[gecko]

I was running Vista Ultimate and tried Acronis v10 to make a clone
copy of the C: drive. The result was terrible. Both drives became
unusable. My BIOS won't even recognize the presence of either drive,
whether I mount them individually or together now. Nor can I install
XP on either drive now.

Can anyone suggest something I can try in order to make the drives
usable again? I don't care if I lose what is on them. I was just
experimenting anyway. But, I hate to lose the drives.

Thanks

-GECKO

 

[gigobert]

Sorry gecko, I did not realise you asked your questin in english language
and consequently answered in dutch ( perhaps because of the sun shining that
much to-day!) and thanks Gerard Bok to translate on my behave

 

[gigobert]

In addition, please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or
intermixed with) the quoted material to which you reply, after
snipping all irrelevant material. See the following links:

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<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>
<http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html>
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OK, will oblige as such