OT - Computer help

TurboMike · 2004-09-15T16:30:21+00:00

Ok, here's the deal. Running an AMD based system with XP Pro. Downloaded theSP2 a few nights ago. System ran like crap, yada yada. Decided to delete SP2after reading about trouble with it from others. Rebooted and it wouldn't bootto Windows. Screwed something up bad. NOW...the drive shows the 2 partitionsbut both show up as empty. I did a re-install with a spare HD and ran the mainHD as a slave both in this PC and in another PC I have here. Still showing thatthe 2 partitions are empty. WTF?? How in the hell did I loose all that data. Isa Maxtor 160gb partitioned into 1 - 132gb partition and another 26gb partition.Anyone know what I can do about this? No, I didn't back up (I know I know) butI can't see that all that stuff is just GONE?! HELP ///MikeTS #631993 BMW 525i of all the old cars

Sep 15, 2004 28 Replies

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WindsorFox[SS] 22 years ago

I'm looking.

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WindsorFox[SS] 22 years ago

BTW, if you add SP2 to a fresh install of Windows, you won't have any problems with it. (knock, knock)

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Iconoclast 22 years ago

Try a bootable Linux rescue disk. Knowing how to use Linux is not important, the programs are self explanatory. search sourceforge.org for "rescue cd" and you should be able to find what you want, I can't remember the names of any offhand

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Joe 22 years ago

Exactly. Plus, if you do the SP2 update with nothing on the system, who cares if it pukes? At least you won't have lost anything. As JS says, just make sure you shut all other programs down before doing SP2. It should work fine.

Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

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Joe 22 years ago

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (TurboMike) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m16.aol.com:

So leave the 20g as the OS drive, then buy another 160gb HD. You'll have one 160gb as your main data drive and the other as a backup drive. All you have to do is make a disk copy once in a while from one 160gb drive to the other.

Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

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Rein 22 years ago

Remove NO-SPAM from email address when replying

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TurboMike 22 years ago

Just did a fresh install as well. Windows update went straight to the SP2 install. Never even did the SP1.

///Mike TS #63

1993 BMW 525i

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of all the old cars

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Joe 22 years ago

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (TurboMike) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m14.aol.com:

Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

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Nicholas Andrade 22 years ago

I was in a similar situation and have a free way to recover the data (will require a second machine with as much free as he data you need to recover is taking): Download a live linux distro like knoppix (try

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). If you are unfamiliar with Linux, data recovery will be tough but here are some basic instructions:

Boot into linux on the troupled machine -- (Put cd in tray and boot system) Create a directory for windows: $mkdir /mnt/win Mount the drive -- $mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win -- (a means Primary Master,

1 means Partion 1) Check if the data is there: $ls /mnt/win -- If the data is still there this will list the directories like dir does in DOS launch an ftp server -- $/etc/init.d/ftpd start From another machine, go in an copy our everything

Things to note: whatever distro you use, make sure you have the NTFS read module built in (knoppix-std already does) all modern distros should read FAT/FAT32 without a problem. Another option to copy the files over is to use scp (secure copy) the command from the external machine will look like: scp -R root@badmachine:/mnt/win . (note the period -- be sure to do it from within the direcory you want the data placed). A free scp client is available from the makers of Putty (a free SSH client).

Have any questions, just post.

Adios, ~Nick

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