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help
i came back home this evening to find my pc in a sorry state.
my main hard drive keeps giving me this error:
i have tried everything i can think of to make it work again [restarting windows, scandisk, checking the IDE cable & power cables, shouting at it, moving it from one IDE slot to the other] but all to no avail :(
i ran partition magic in the hope that it might be able to help... it told me this:
the disk in question had something in the region of 100GB of information on it which i really don't want to lose.
don't know if it makes any differnce or not, but i'm using is windows 98.
if anyone has any ideas as to how i can fix this problem, please let me know.
my main hard drive keeps giving me this error:
i have tried everything i can think of to make it work again [restarting windows, scandisk, checking the IDE cable & power cables, shouting at it, moving it from one IDE slot to the other] but all to no avail :(
i ran partition magic in the hope that it might be able to help... it told me this:
the disk in question had something in the region of 100GB of information on it which i really don't want to lose.
don't know if it makes any differnce or not, but i'm using is windows 98.
if anyone has any ideas as to how i can fix this problem, please let me know.
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It looks like it's probably a hardware fault, but you might want to try to install Windows 2000 or XP and see if they can read it.
The size of the harddrive makes me think that maybe you've run into the size limit built into earlier versions of Windows. If you try to install windows 2000 you can get a patch for it (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013). I believe Windows XP already has the ability to read large drives.
Good luck...
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well
Re: well
no, am not coming to norwich on friday.
D:\ is being feculent
Chances are 50/50 that the information is gone. Usually when a drive
appears unformatted, you can only use it by formatting - which results
in data loss anyway. My suggestion to you is to find a buddy's
computer who is running WinXP. When you boot the drive as a slave in
his/her computer, WinXP can detect it as a drive that has
malfunctioned and will request to run a checkdisk on it. If WinXP
runs a checkdisk or a repair on the hard drive, you should be able to
view all the data. (It will take just a few minutes)
Other than that, I would test it in a few others with more recent
Operating Systems to see which one can read your drive. If that
doesn't work...well....the unspeakable might have occurred....
Re: D:\ is being feculent
i shall make it my aim to befriend someone with xp this week.
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therefore this is an entirely useless post. go me!
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w00t
do you approve of this pic more than the last one btw? :P
Re: w00t
post 'em and i'll tell u which one is best
gah
old::
new::
aaah!
they're a bit small
i think the new one is the best.... but it still doesn't look that much like you. and what's with the funky lense flare? is that your camera that did it or did someone play around with them in the old potato shop?
oh youre just so funny
i have an obsession with lens flare cos in my lil brain they look like fairies...
you fuckin' knows it
it's called sarcasm hun
*cries*
although... woman1 just needs to get off the smack...bloke2 wouldnt ming if he took that rubberband off of his foyce... bloke3 has had a skin graft...er... thing4 just needs some lipo and a facelift... woman/thing5... i have no suggestions.
oh... :(
well
*coughs*
Re: well
um...
now you're teasing me
but i like teasing :P
you're a bad girl.
i am, and you (and everyone else) love it.
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