OK, Here's the story:
I bought a Tekram RAID card and my second 40 GB Maxtor HDD, and went to backup all my data for a format/reinstall party. I had a 40 GB Maxtor with all my stuff on it, and a 20 GB Fujitsu to backup to. I made a folder on the desktop, and started moving everything I wanted to keep into it. I got everything I needed in the folder, and then in the rush, I forgot to move the folder over to the 20 GB drive. I then installed the RAID card with both 40 GB Maxtor drives, and set them up as a RAID 0 array. I then removed the partition from the array. Then I had some problems, where the computer wouldn't boot, but I got those figured out. (Although, I think I may be using the backup BIOS on my MSI GeForce 4 4400 card.) Anywho, somewhere in there I reallized that I never copied over the data. DOH!! Well, I remained calm, and tried a few things this morning. First, I tried to get norton disk doctor to repair the partition. That didn't work. Then, I tried to use the repair console and fixmbr to repair the MBR. That didn't work. Then I created a new partition. I didn't format it however. Then I tried to get norton to fix it. It said it fixed 2 things, but still . . . no go. Ok, now it was time to get serious. I got the Microsoft utility dskprobe from MSDN, and installed it and windows on my new HDD. The program works just like diskedit, except it is windows based. It is part of the nt4 resource kit I believe. The first thing I tried was to find the backup of the mbr, which supposedly is stored at the end of the drive. I didn't find it. So, I copied the mbr from the new drive, and wrote it to the old drive. Still no go. Then I took the backup MBR from the new drive, and wrote that to the old drive. now, I get a different error msg, but still no data. with disk probe, however, I can see that there is data there, so the drive was not wiped clean. The data is not super-important, but I would like to get it back if at all possible. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance!
-Spencer
PS Yes, I know I am a lurker.
I bought a Tekram RAID card and my second 40 GB Maxtor HDD, and went to backup all my data for a format/reinstall party. I had a 40 GB Maxtor with all my stuff on it, and a 20 GB Fujitsu to backup to. I made a folder on the desktop, and started moving everything I wanted to keep into it. I got everything I needed in the folder, and then in the rush, I forgot to move the folder over to the 20 GB drive. I then installed the RAID card with both 40 GB Maxtor drives, and set them up as a RAID 0 array. I then removed the partition from the array. Then I had some problems, where the computer wouldn't boot, but I got those figured out. (Although, I think I may be using the backup BIOS on my MSI GeForce 4 4400 card.) Anywho, somewhere in there I reallized that I never copied over the data. DOH!! Well, I remained calm, and tried a few things this morning. First, I tried to get norton disk doctor to repair the partition. That didn't work. Then, I tried to use the repair console and fixmbr to repair the MBR. That didn't work. Then I created a new partition. I didn't format it however. Then I tried to get norton to fix it. It said it fixed 2 things, but still . . . no go. Ok, now it was time to get serious. I got the Microsoft utility dskprobe from MSDN, and installed it and windows on my new HDD. The program works just like diskedit, except it is windows based. It is part of the nt4 resource kit I believe. The first thing I tried was to find the backup of the mbr, which supposedly is stored at the end of the drive. I didn't find it. So, I copied the mbr from the new drive, and wrote it to the old drive. Still no go. Then I took the backup MBR from the new drive, and wrote that to the old drive. now, I get a different error msg, but still no data. with disk probe, however, I can see that there is data there, so the drive was not wiped clean. The data is not super-important, but I would like to get it back if at all possible. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance!
-Spencer
PS Yes, I know I am a lurker.
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