Lost Hard Disk Formatting

[Guest]

I have Athlon XP1900 system with 2 harddisks on IDE0 and 1. The 1st drive
contains windows partition and 2 others. the 2nd is 1 large 200gig partition.
I recently ran disk cleanup on the C: partition of drive 1 and the H:
partition (drive 2). I then defragged both C: and H:. Soon thereafter my H:
drive showed up as an unformatted hard drive and I cannot access any of my
files on the drive. Anyone have any suggestions as to what may have happened
and how I might fix it. I really need the data on that drive.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have Athlon XP1900 system with 2 harddisks on IDE0 and 1. The 1st drive
contains windows partition and 2 others. the 2nd is 1 large 200gig partition.
I recently ran disk cleanup on the C: partition of drive 1 and the H:
partition (drive 2). I then defragged both C: and H:. Soon thereafter my H:
drive showed up as an unformatted hard drive and I cannot access any of my
files on the drive. Anyone have any suggestions as to what may have happened
and how I might fix it. I really need the data on that drive.

I have used Acronis Recovery Expert on several occasions
to restore missing partitions.

After fixing your immediate problem, you might want to
review your decision not to back up your important data
to an independent medium at least once every week.
A hard disk in a USB enclosure costs around $100.00.

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:17:15 +1000, "Pegasus \(MVP\)"

|A hard disk in a USB enclosure costs around $100.00
I got IDE-USB2 5.5" enclosure 4 $20 & 80GB HD 4 $30 -
1/2 $ & 2x flexible since u can put any IDE device like
DVD in it.

Just my 2¢ worth. 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.

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

To add to Pegasus.

If you have WinXP with no SP1 installed -- you will have the unsolvable
problems with 200-GB HDD.

If you have SP1 installed -- you have to add one key to the Registry to
work with the drives larger than 137GB.

No problems with the drives larger than 137GB -- if SP2 is installed.

See:
"How to Enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing Support for ATAPI Disk
Drives in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q303013

--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:17:15 +1000, "Pegasus \(MVP\)"

|A hard disk in a USB enclosure costs around $100.00
I got IDE-USB2 5.5" enclosure 4 $20 & 80GB HD 4 $30 -
1/2 $ & 2x flexible since u can put any IDE device like
DVD in it.

Just my 2¢ worth. 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.

Do you really have a 5.5" enclosure? This must be one whopper of a disk!


If you can afford it then I recommend a 2.5" disk. Its USB
enclosure comes in a little pouch the size of an electronic
calculator. Very nice!

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 19:30:36 +1000, "Pegasus \(MVP\)"

|Do you really have a 5.5" enclosure? This must be one whopper of a disk!
|
That big so DVD/CD will fit.

|If you can afford it then I recommend a 2.5" disk. Its USB
|enclosure comes in a little pouch the size of an electronic
|calculator. Very nice!
Size might be factor cause major threat is hurricanes
here in FL & I'm in LOW area. I grab cat & disk & car
keys & go 95 up I-75

U r right tho- USB2 drives r perfect backup media with
portability, size & speed. I use imaging software to BU
partitions & it flies. 6 months ago I posted here how
well it works but got no comments except from MVP
Sharon. "lead a horse......"

Just my 2¢ worth. 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.