Well, I was using my new laptop hard drive to standard IDE converter to try and fix an old laptop I have lying around. I had the laptop hard drive in my primary computer, and I was using a Windows 98 bootdisk to partition/reformat the thing. Well, I figured "Hey, this is WINDOWS 98, it's not going to be able to access my SATA drives without extra drivers". So I left them plugged in. Sure enough, when it booted, it gave me the standard "C drive not detected...have you fdisked it? Do you have a virus Are you sure you HAVE a drive?" menu. So I figured the (damaged) laptop drive was the only thing being detected. Ha, ha. I delete the only partition I detect, shutdown, and take out the laptop hard drive.
...well, now I'm getting "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". Oh...no.....it MUST have detected my SATA drives, even though I thought it wasn't possible!
Anyway, I know that all that nice expensive file recovery software will help me out. However, I was wondering if there was any simpler way, since I didn't format or make ANY changes after fdisking. I didn't even define a new partition. Would something like FIXMBR from the Windows Recovery Console help me? Or maybe there's some freeware out there....?
thanks.
...well, now I'm getting "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". Oh...no.....it MUST have detected my SATA drives, even though I thought it wasn't possible!
Anyway, I know that all that nice expensive file recovery software will help me out. However, I was wondering if there was any simpler way, since I didn't format or make ANY changes after fdisking. I didn't even define a new partition. Would something like FIXMBR from the Windows Recovery Console help me? Or maybe there's some freeware out there....?
thanks.
