When you take out the second hard drive can you use the HDD then. If you can
then it would be the jumoer settings on your HDD. One needs to be set for
master the other for slave.

"Warped" wrote:

I got a utility from the disk manufacturer. The utility says that
there are no bad sectors on the hard drive. This means, I guess, that
it is a software problem. Nothing was overwritten. How can old stuff
overwrite newer stuff?Ohhhhhh.

Warped

Harry Ohrn wrote:
Files are retained on a drive until they are over written. So it is not
unusual to find remnants of files from a very long time ago. In your case it
sounds like your hard drive has bad sectors. Some of the drive is readable
and parts aren't. If that is so there is virtually no way to recover files
that might be on the damaged sectors.

--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Warped" wrote in message
ups.com...
I don't know if this is the right group to ask this, but here goes.

My hard drive crashed. Dead. Cannot even view it after I installed a
second hard drive. I think boot.ini is corrupted. I tried a number a
recovery programs including Easy Recovery Professional which saw the
dead hard drive.

There are two problems.

Problem NO. 1: The hard drive has two partitions. I could recover some
files on the first partition (C) but very little on the second
partition (D). I am having a real problem getting into the second
partition. Most recovery programs do not see the second partition and
if they do, they cannot read the second partition.

Problem No. 2: It seems that most of the files I recovered are files
from more than a year or so ago. I am beginning to suspect that the
problem lies with files created after I installed SP2. I cannot
recover files created after SP2 was installed.

Can anybody help me.

Warped