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Feb 24th, 2005, 06:20 AM
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Thread Starter
transcendental analytic
Error loading operating system
I have had this problem once before installing XP on my SATA 200G Maxtor, but it got solved when i formatted the primary partition to FAT32 and installed XP on the second partition which is NTFS.
But now that I have gotten bad clusters on my other drive, the drive i have 2k on that I use now, i started to copy off files from it to my XP partition, but it could never finish copying the files, so i canceled the copying and went to restart so I could boot from my XP drive.
But then I get Error loading operating system, and when i start in 2k again, both drives show up as unformatted. I try using testdisk to restore the boot and MBR records, but no luck. Any ideas how I can either restore the partitions or recover the data from there? I've tried getdataback which sees some files and directories but they are very few.
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Feb 27th, 2005, 03:02 PM
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Retired VBF Adm1nistrator
Re: Error loading operating system
We use a product called R-Studio (Recovery Studio) for data recovery in work. Take the drive out, stick into another machine, fire up R-Studio and see what it can get from the drive...
Microsoft MVP : Visual Developer - Visual Basic [2004-2005]
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Mar 3rd, 2005, 05:55 AM
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Thread Starter
transcendental analytic
Re: Error loading operating system
Thanks Jamie, I've got that program already, works magic in finding stuff lying about, if you only remember some of what it contained but there seems to only be small fragments of the former file system, and there is no information on the more important files i have.
One thing though, the drive shows up as 128G, when its actually 200G, the two partitions however add up to 200G, is this causing a problem? In CMOS settings i can only change between Auto (which results in the drive showing up CHS) and Large, there's no LBA for SATA? Is there any way to change it so it shows up correctly?
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writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
writing haskell makes your life easier:
reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
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Mar 3rd, 2005, 06:14 AM
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Retired VBF Adm1nistrator
Re: Error loading operating system
Hmm. If you go into Computer Management, and into disk management, what is the size of the drive reported as?
Microsoft MVP : Visual Developer - Visual Basic [2004-2005]
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Mar 3rd, 2005, 09:01 AM
#5
Thread Starter
transcendental analytic
Re: Error loading operating system
hmm, it says 189.92G which seems correct enough. Guess that was only R-Studio 
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writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
writing haskell makes your life easier:
reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
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