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Help, can't see hard drive...

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Balael

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I installed my new raid setup, it worked fine, then proceeded to turn off computer, then plugged in old single hard drive, it booted from old hard drive, not new ones, so i reset, and it screwed it all up, can't even see the old hard drive now, when i try to boot from just it, it crashes, i can't use xp disk to try and restore, won't even let me get to that menu, is there any way to get my 30 gigs worth of info off of it? any help would be appreciative, i'm kinda freaking out right now. heh.

Balael
 
I am not going to be as helpful as I would like, but I may have had something similar occur to me some months back. I lost boot capability with my hard drive loaded with critical data. I think I would BSOD during boot so I kind of knew the hard drive data was still there. I got desperate and installed a new hard drive with Win XP. I then connected the old drive as a slave and I believe during the boot of Win XP on the new drive, it may have given me an error message about the "old" drive and it ran chkdsk on the old drive (I am uncertain of exactly what happened having been a few months back). However, if not I then ran a check of the drive after booting up on the new drive. It found something wrong and fixed it. I then installed the "old" drive as a stand alone drive again and Windows booted just fine. I also read about this from someone else a couple of weeks later and there was a simpler solution to the problem but I can't remember what it was. Like booting from the CD ROM and running chkdsk. You can't actually do a repair from the CD which I attempted to do with no luck. Microsoft even documents the problem on their knowledge base. I wish I could help more but don't give up on the whole drive yet, your data is probably intact on it.
 
Thanks for the reply! I'm desperate, i'm going to try that when I get a chance, i'm off to work in a little bit, i'm just praying i haven't lost everything. Thanks again so much.

Balael
 
Bah, had to end up formatting in maxtor bootdisk screen of hate! Heh, gonna hopefully just use some disk recovery tools now. Well i hope this works.

Balael
 
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