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What in zeus' butthole is going on?

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Mamapajama

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Here's what happened...

Yesterday I turn on my computer, and it wouldnt boot up. So i just resetted it, and there was an error after getting to the part right before the windows logo pops up.. by the way, i'm working on win98.. go figure.. it says "dis boot failure... blah blah blah" So i tried to start up with the boot disk and what not, and when i tried everything, nothing would work.. i then tried to reinstall windows, and i cant even do that cus it says that my C: has not fat32 partitions on it. I tried to check everything thru fdisk, but it says the partitions ARE there, so i couldnt create new ones.. wats going on? Did the original partition go bye bye, and if it did, can I recover it? better yet.. what is the optimal solution to this if there is one?

one more thing.. i tried to use this HD (maxtor diamondmax 30gb 7200rpm) as a slave device and start with a different HD so I could salvage all my important files and just format it.. but i couldnt even do that cus when i try, it says "error reading d: a device attached to it could not work" or something like that (d: was my maxtor, the slave). anyone have any suggestions? thanks for reading all of this!

 
sounds straight-forward enough, i'm surprised nobody jumped in to help yet...

you have the right idea about booting off of another hdd as master and your damaged drive as slave, but that won't let you have acces to the data...what you ought to do is download the free version of a utility from Ontrack called easy recovery...the free version will let you see which files it is able to recover but you have to buy the full version to actually restore anything...

just make sure you will have enough harddrive space on whichever disk you boot with to recover what you want, and you really won't need to boot off that hdd because easyrecovery makes a bootdisk to perform the recovery...

i have used this util FAR too many times myself and it works great!

good luck!!!

MaxImuM
 
Hey thanks .. I did find the program, but for some reason, I was unable to recover any of the files.. I read on the site that I could recover up to 5 files on the trail version? Oh well.. I will experiment a little more with this regardless.. it really IS a good resource.. too bad it costs 180$.. heh.. thanks again!

Does anyone else have any other suggestions?
 
When does it say that you don't have the fat32 partitions. Is this after windows boots the machine? My machine has given me this same thing before and if I remeber correctly.
Windows disk loads, it tells you that it is going to check your machine, it then "soft" boots and then spits out this message that says you don't have the partition. Is that what you are getting?
If so, when then computer does it's soft boot, force it into a hard boot. Don't know what this does, but it has got me through many an issue caused by win98.
 
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