Need Data Recovery from HD

"Jetro" wrote in message
...
Certainly chkdsk.exe exists in any MS OS, this is its native utility.
OTOH,
DOS version prompts to use scandisk.exe instead starting from DOS 6.2 when
MS has purchased scandisk.exe from P.Norton.

I think (fairly certain) it was Central Point (PC Tools) Scandisk was bought
from.

--
Joep

- jazz -
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
are a couple of links to some poular recover software options. I
have used
both and found the ontrac offering a little easier to use for ther
novice
but the rstudios seems to be a little more powerfull with the ability
to
recover from other partition format types like ext2 and 3 and
reiserFS.

- Nehmo -
EasyRecovery Professional Edition from Ontrack http://www.ontrack.com/
did indeed extract files from my victim HD. It found about 10,000 files
of different types, and it categorized them by type and displayed each
file's size. In other words, after examining the victim drive, ER
displayed that it had found so many .docs, so many .gifs, and so on. The
original file names are gone, but ER applied its own number-name to each
file (FIL211, FIL212, FIL213, and so on), and it also provided size info
for each file. ER didn't provide creation dates or anything else.

So now, since I only have 2 GB of free space on the 15 GB HD that I'm
using, I still need a new good HD to store my extracted files. Then I
need to figure out what they are and organize them. I may be able to
find my critical Word docs soon because I can estimate their size and
look for that.

At this point, I don't know if I'll be able to recover everything, and
it's going to take some time figuring out what's what.

It was a mistake to run CHKDSK when I did.

Since I had successfully repair-installed WinXP on the 15 GB HD*, I
assumed I could go through the same process on the 80 GB HD, and that's
what I was trying to do. I should have first hooked up the 80 as a slave
to the working 15 and checked if I could read the 80. Then if I could
read, I should have backed up the critical files. If I couldn't, I
should have attempted recovery from that point.

*This was actually a precaution to _avoid_ losing the data on the 80. I
wanted to first see if I could install WinXP on a disk that had
expendable data. My plan was, once I was successful at that and familiar
with the process, I was going to deal with the 80 the same way.


--
*********************
* Nehmo Sergheyev *
*********************

Isn't that what I suggested to you about 25 posts earlier (-:

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message
...
- jazz -
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
are a couple of links to some poular recover software options. I
have used
both and found the ontrac offering a little easier to use for ther
novice
but the rstudios seems to be a little more powerfull with the ability
to
recover from other partition format types like ext2 and 3 and
reiserFS.

- Nehmo -
EasyRecovery Professional Edition from Ontrack http://www.ontrack.com/
did indeed extract files from my victim HD. It found about 10,000 files
of different types, and it categorized them by type and displayed each
file's size. In other words, after examining the victim drive, ER
displayed that it had found so many .docs, so many .gifs, and so on. The
original file names are gone, but ER applied its own number-name to each
file (FIL211, FIL212, FIL213, and so on), and it also provided size info
for each file. ER didn't provide creation dates or anything else.

So now, since I only have 2 GB of free space on the 15 GB HD that I'm
using, I still need a new good HD to store my extracted files. Then I
need to figure out what they are and organize them. I may be able to
find my critical Word docs soon because I can estimate their size and
look for that.

At this point, I don't know if I'll be able to recover everything, and
it's going to take some time figuring out what's what.

It was a mistake to run CHKDSK when I did.

Since I had successfully repair-installed WinXP on the 15 GB HD*, I
assumed I could go through the same process on the 80 GB HD, and that's
what I was trying to do. I should have first hooked up the 80 as a slave
to the working 15 and checked if I could read the 80. Then if I could
read, I should have backed up the critical files. If I couldn't, I
should have attempted recovery from that point.

*This was actually a precaution to _avoid_ losing the data on the 80. I
wanted to first see if I could install WinXP on a disk that had
expendable data. My plan was, once I was successful at that and familiar
with the process, I was going to deal with the 80 the same way.


--
*********************
* Nehmo Sergheyev *
*********************

Isn't that what I suggested to you about 25 posts earlier (-:

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message
...
- jazz -
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
are a couple of links to some poular recover software options. I
have used
both and found the ontrac offering a little easier to use for ther
novice
but the rstudios seems to be a little more powerfull with the ability
to
recover from other partition format types like ext2 and 3 and
reiserFS.

- Nehmo -
EasyRecovery Professional Edition from Ontrack http://www.ontrack.com/
did indeed extract files from my victim HD. It found about 10,000 files
of different types, and it categorized them by type and displayed each
file's size. In other words, after examining the victim drive, ER
displayed that it had found so many .docs, so many .gifs, and so on. The
original file names are gone, but ER applied its own number-name to each
file (FIL211, FIL212, FIL213, and so on), and it also provided size info
for each file. ER didn't provide creation dates or anything else.

So now, since I only have 2 GB of free space on the 15 GB HD that I'm
using, I still need a new good HD to store my extracted files. Then I
need to figure out what they are and organize them. I may be able to
find my critical Word docs soon because I can estimate their size and
look for that.

At this point, I don't know if I'll be able to recover everything, and
it's going to take some time figuring out what's what.

It was a mistake to run CHKDSK when I did.

Since I had successfully repair-installed WinXP on the 15 GB HD*, I
assumed I could go through the same process on the 80 GB HD, and that's
what I was trying to do. I should have first hooked up the 80 as a slave
to the working 15 and checked if I could read the 80. Then if I could
read, I should have backed up the critical files. If I couldn't, I
should have attempted recovery from that point.

*This was actually a precaution to _avoid_ losing the data on the 80. I
wanted to first see if I could install WinXP on a disk that had
expendable data. My plan was, once I was successful at that and familiar
with the process, I was going to deal with the 80 the same way.


--
*********************
* Nehmo Sergheyev *
*********************

For your information, chkdsk certainly DOES exist in Win98, if you use F8
and boot to the command prompt.

So, in addition to having a foul mouth, you are also quite stupid!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"Bill" wrote in message
...

"Harry Ohrn" wrote in message
...
Your "new" motherboard might not be so new. It could be limited to the
size
of hard drive it will recognize. A 32GB limitation is not unusual for some
older boards. What is the brand and model number of your motherboard?

BTW you mentioned that you ran CHKDSK from "DOS". Is the drive formatted
as
FAT32?

You dumb ¢ünt! How in the world can one get into DOS when there is none in
XP. Even if he had the partition formatted in FAT32, and used a 98/ME
bootdisk to get there (which I am giving you the benefit that you got this
basic element correct), there is no CHKDSK command line in it. How in the
fü¢k you got the MVP status is beyond me!

For your information, chkdsk certainly DOES exist in Win98, if you use F8
and boot to the command prompt.

So, in addition to having a foul mouth, you are also quite stupid!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"Bill" wrote in message
...

"Harry Ohrn" wrote in message
...
Your "new" motherboard might not be so new. It could be limited to the
size
of hard drive it will recognize. A 32GB limitation is not unusual for some
older boards. What is the brand and model number of your motherboard?

BTW you mentioned that you ran CHKDSK from "DOS". Is the drive formatted
as
FAT32?

You dumb ¢ünt! How in the world can one get into DOS when there is none in
XP. Even if he had the partition formatted in FAT32, and used a 98/ME
bootdisk to get there (which I am giving you the benefit that you got this
basic element correct), there is no CHKDSK command line in it. How in the
fü¢k you got the MVP status is beyond me!

To add: Some Master drives have jumper settings: Master drive with no other drive, and
Master device on cable with other IDE devices. So it's not just the Slave drive jumpers
that you have to be concerned with.
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T.C.

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"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message
...
- Harry Ohrn -
Are you certain it is jumpered correctly? Some large hard drives have
a
capacity limiter jumper setting so they can be used with older boards.
I do
not know if that is true for your drive but if the jumper is set
incorrectly
that could be one reason why the size is not being properly displayed.

- Nehmo -
After I send this post, I'll physically remove it and put the jumpers
off and then back on to make sure of the contacts. But if Western
Digital's literature is correct, then I have the drive correctly
jumpered as slave - 1&2 connected + 3&4 connected, both jumpers next to
the power connector.

The size of the drive showed up as reduced after I ran CHKDSK /F. While
I was running that, BTW, CHKDSK correctly listed the name of the drive
and it's size. Now I can't even get the name.

Since the drive is now listed as healthy in Computer Management, I
believe if I formatted the drive now, it would be usable at the reduced
size. But that's relatively not important. I want to retrieve the data.


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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
*********************




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To add: Some Master drives have jumper settings: Master drive with no other drive, and
Master device on cable with other IDE devices. So it's not just the Slave drive jumpers
that you have to be concerned with.
--

T.C.

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"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message
...
- Harry Ohrn -
Are you certain it is jumpered correctly? Some large hard drives have
a
capacity limiter jumper setting so they can be used with older boards.
I do
not know if that is true for your drive but if the jumper is set
incorrectly
that could be one reason why the size is not being properly displayed.

- Nehmo -
After I send this post, I'll physically remove it and put the jumpers
off and then back on to make sure of the contacts. But if Western
Digital's literature is correct, then I have the drive correctly
jumpered as slave - 1&2 connected + 3&4 connected, both jumpers next to
the power connector.

The size of the drive showed up as reduced after I ran CHKDSK /F. While
I was running that, BTW, CHKDSK correctly listed the name of the drive
and it's size. Now I can't even get the name.

Since the drive is now listed as healthy in Computer Management, I
believe if I formatted the drive now, it would be usable at the reduced
size. But that's relatively not important. I want to retrieve the data.


--
*********************
* Nehmo Sergheyev *
*********************




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Data recovery software is free. Try findntfs from www.partitionsupport.com

"Harry Ohrn" wrote in message
...
You will need decent recovery software. Some of it can be quite expensive.
One of the best tools I've used is Disk Commander from Winternals

http://www.winternals.com/products/r...pid=ap#diskcom
however it is definitely in the higher end price range.

Data recovery software is free. Try findntfs from www.partitionsupport.com

"Harry Ohrn" wrote in message
...
You will need decent recovery software. Some of it can be quite expensive.
One of the best tools I've used is Disk Commander from Winternals

http://www.winternals.com/products/r...pid=ap#diskcom
however it is definitely in the higher end price range.

-Crusty "Old B@stard-.
Isn't that what I suggested to you about 25 posts earlier (-:

- Nehmo -
Yes, and (even though "25" is an exaggeration) I thank you for the
directing me. I only have about four hours per day to devote to ALL of
what I need to do on the machine. I didn't get to EasyRecovery until
yesterday.
I still have to read more about what it does. I notice I'm getting some
large Word docs with nothing visible (at least in Word) in them.
I dying to get another drive so I can see what I end up missing.


--
*********************
* Nehmo Sergheyev *
*********************

-Crusty "Old B@stard-.
Isn't that what I suggested to you about 25 posts earlier (-:

- Nehmo -
Yes, and (even though "25" is an exaggeration) I thank you for the
directing me. I only have about four hours per day to devote to ALL of
what I need to do on the machine. I didn't get to EasyRecovery until
yesterday.
I still have to read more about what it does. I notice I'm getting some
large Word docs with nothing visible (at least in Word) in them.
I dying to get another drive so I can see what I end up missing.


--
*********************
* Nehmo Sergheyev *
*********************

For your information, chkdsk certainly DOES exist in Win98, if you use F8
and boot to the command prompt.

So, in addition to having a foul mouth, you are also quite stupid!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"Bill" wrote in message
...

"Harry Ohrn" wrote in message
...
Your "new" motherboard might not be so new. It could be limited to the
size
of hard drive it will recognize. A 32GB limitation is not unusual for some
older boards. What is the brand and model number of your motherboard?

BTW you mentioned that you ran CHKDSK from "DOS". Is the drive formatted
as
FAT32?

You dumb ¢ünt! How in the world can one get into DOS when there is none in
XP. Even if he had the partition formatted in FAT32, and used a 98/ME
bootdisk to get there (which I am giving you the benefit that you got this
basic element correct), there is no CHKDSK command line in it. How in the
fü¢k you got the MVP status is beyond me!

To add: Some Master drives have jumper settings: Master drive with no other drive, and
Master device on cable with other IDE devices. So it's not just the Slave drive jumpers
that you have to be concerned with.
--

T.C.

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"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message
...
- Harry Ohrn -
Are you certain it is jumpered correctly? Some large hard drives have
a
capacity limiter jumper setting so they can be used with older boards.
I do
not know if that is true for your drive but if the jumper is set
incorrectly
that could be one reason why the size is not being properly displayed.

- Nehmo -
After I send this post, I'll physically remove it and put the jumpers
off and then back on to make sure of the contacts. But if Western
Digital's literature is correct, then I have the drive correctly
jumpered as slave - 1&2 connected + 3&4 connected, both jumpers next to
the power connector.

The size of the drive showed up as reduced after I ran CHKDSK /F. While
I was running that, BTW, CHKDSK correctly listed the name of the drive
and it's size. Now I can't even get the name.

Since the drive is now listed as healthy in Computer Management, I
believe if I formatted the drive now, it would be usable at the reduced
size. But that's relatively not important. I want to retrieve the data.


--
*********************
* Nehmo Sergheyev *
*********************




---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/2004

Data recovery software is free. Try findntfs from www.partitionsupport.com

"Harry Ohrn" wrote in message
...
You will need decent recovery software. Some of it can be quite expensive.
One of the best tools I've used is Disk Commander from Winternals

http://www.winternals.com/products/r...pid=ap#diskcom
however it is definitely in the higher end price range.