Lost hard drives after XP reinstall

[Guest]

I had to reinstall XP from the installation disk last weekend. The reinstall
went ok and I reapplied SP2. But, I have two extra hard drives with a lot of
video files on them. Now those drives don't show in the explorer but are
there when I look at the disk manager. They are showing as the correct size
and it reports they are working correctly. Any help is appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Open a command prompt in the directory where you extracted the files. Run
partinfw using this command line: C:\ where you extracted Partinfo.zip\
partinfw > partinfo.txt (the MBR info will be in this txt file you just made)
Copy and paste the contents of partinfo.txt to your reply.
http://www.bootitng.com/downloads/PARTINFO.ZIP

If the MBR has in effect been zeroed out, if your up to it, you might try
the TestDisk app or Photorec app. both are included in the TD 6.5 Win XP zip..
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
These apps have been data savers for me..
Cheers
j;-j

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jaymon, here is the text resulting from the partinfw.exe command what
does it tell you?

PARTINFW 1.10
Copyright (c) 1996-2006 TeraByte, Inc. All rights reserved.

Run date: 02/13/2007 21:09

====================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x726A014E)
(CHS: 11/254/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
| 0: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 80 | 0 1 1 | 6 | 95 63 32 | 32 | 196576 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
BOOT SECTOR INFORMATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0x6 LBA: 32 Total Sectors: 196576 ID: 0x4
Jump: EB 50 90
OEM Name: (Z):5IHC
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 4
Res Sectors: 1
Num FATs: 2
Root Dir Ents: 512
Sectors: 0
Media: 0xF8
Secs Per FAT: 192
Sec Per Track: 32
Heads: 64
Hidden Secs: 32
Huge Sectors: 196576
Drive Num: 0x80
Res: 0x42
Sig: 0x29
Vol ID: 0x15F92C71
Volume Label: DATA BACKUP
FS Type: FAT16
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
====================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD1 - 0x92F492F4)
(CHS: 1023/254/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
| 0: | 80 | 0 1 1 | 7 | 1023 254 63 | 63 | 312560577 |
| 1: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
BOOT SECTOR INFORMATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0x7 LBA: 63 Total Sectors: 312560577 ID: 0x1
Jump: EB 52 90
OEM Name: NTFS
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 8
Res Sectors: 0
Zero 1: 0x0
Zero 2: 0x0
NA 1: 0x0
Media: 0xF8
Zero 3: 0x0
Sec Per Track: 63
Heads: 255
Hidden Secs: 63
NA 2: 0x0
NA 3: 0x800080
Total Sectors: 0x012A14BC0
MFT LCN: 0x0C0000
MFT Mirr LCN: 0x012A14BC
Clust Per FRS: 0xF6
Clust Per IBlock: 0x1
Volume SN: 0x6CC5243CC522D65
Checksum: 0x0
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
====================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD2 - 0x6143184F)
(CHS: 1023/254/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
| 0: | 80 | 0 1 1 | 44 | 1023 254 63 | 63 | 390716802 |
| 1: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
====================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD3 - 0xE09960A7)
(CHS: 1023/254/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
| 0: | 80 | 0 1 1 | 44 | 1023 254 63 | 63 | 488392002 |
| 1: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+

 

[Guest]

Your welcome, Thanks..

What's with the FAT16, are you multi-booting two OS's..?
Looks like your 2 drives HD2 & HD3 have pretty much zeroed out on you..
Might use the TestDisk app to repair or write a new MBR for both drives,
your call though..

(http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download) Your call..
Get the zip, extract the files to C:\testdisk-6.5 go to C:\testdisk-6.5\win
to find the "testdisk win" file icon and click on it, this opens a dos box,
create a log, enter, "important" select the right disk, proceed, enter,
select Intel, enter, Analyse, enter, *primary, enter, should see green
entry(s), enter, write the MBR, reboot..

The above is basically what you need to do, you may receive a warning if a
problem occurs.. I never got one, always stay with the *primary selection and
you should be fine, just make sure you choose the right disk..
Read all the info on the testdisk site too.. See this link for an older
tutorial if you need to..
http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/testdisk.html (this is for an older 4.4
ver, don't let it confuse you, it's just to give you a basic idea of what
you'll see..)
Post your results..
Cheers
j;-j

 

[Guest]

Thanks again. The FAT16 is probably my ZIP disk. I will try the testdisk
program. I'll let you know how it comes out.