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December 7th 03, 08:39 PM
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Trying to recover 2 disks
HI all, thanks for the help --
I have an XP system with 2 IDE drives. The system appears to have been zapped, the mother board is bad I suspect. I have taken everything out but the motherboard and floppy, and booting to MSDOS even dies in about 5 seconds. My last backup was about 3 days ago so I would like to recover the last 3 days if I can. I took the 2 IDE disks and one by one, put them on my server (which has 2 SCSI disks). To simplify, I just kept the 'C" SCSI disk online, so when I go into disk admin I see the C drive and an un-named second drive pronounced "healthy", but it has no driver letter, file system, and it's status is 100% disk space free. I cannot do anything to the drive, ie set a drive letter etc. I tried changing to Dynamic Drive and nothing happens - it's reported as a Basic drive. The IDE drive was on an XP system at current rev, I moved it to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition. Is there something I need to do to the disk to see it? I tried this with both IDE drives, and several combinations. I currently have the old D drive from XP in there thinking there was a drive name conflict (but I don't think that's the case). Any info on how to read the drive would be greatly appreciated. It's like Server 2K3 knows it's there and is good but it can't get to it... 
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Trying to recover 2 disks
PS - status is Healthy (Active) the other SCSI drive is Healthy (System). Even though it's healthy I can't get to it and none of the help is applicable...
"Don Awalt" wrote in message ... HI all, thanks for the help -- I have an XP system with 2 IDE drives. The system appears to have been zapped, the mother board is bad I suspect. I have taken everything out but the motherboard and floppy, and booting to MSDOS even dies in about 5 seconds. My last backup was about 3 days ago so I would like to recover the last 3 days if I can. I took the 2 IDE disks and one by one, put them on my server (which has 2 SCSI disks). To simplify, I just kept the 'C" SCSI disk online, so when I go into disk admin I see the C drive and an un-named second drive pronounced "healthy", but it has no driver letter, file system, and it's status is 100% disk space free. I cannot do anything to the drive, ie set a drive letter etc. I tried changing to Dynamic Drive and nothing happens - it's reported as a Basic drive. The IDE drive was on an XP system at current rev, I moved it to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition. Is there something I need to do to the disk to see it? I tried this with both IDE drives, and several combinations. I currently have the old D drive from XP in there thinking there was a drive name conflict (but I don't think that's the case). Any info on how to read the drive would be greatly appreciated. It's like Server 2K3 knows it's there and is good but it can't get to it...
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December 7th 03, 08:45 PM
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Trying to recover 2 disks
If no one has any ideas is there another NG I should be asking this in?
Thanks for your advice! "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... PS - status is Healthy (Active) the other SCSI drive is Healthy (System). Even though it's healthy I can't get to it and none of the help is applicable... "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... HI all, thanks for the help -- I have an XP system with 2 IDE drives. The system appears to have been zapped, the mother board is bad I suspect. I have taken everything out but the motherboard and floppy, and booting to MSDOS even dies in about 5 seconds. My last backup was about 3 days ago so I would like to recover the last 3 days if I can. I took the 2 IDE disks and one by one, put them on my server (which has 2 SCSI disks). To simplify, I just kept the 'C" SCSI disk online, so when I go into disk admin I see the C drive and an un-named second drive pronounced "healthy", but it has no driver letter, file system, and it's status is 100% disk space free. I cannot do anything to the drive, ie set a drive letter etc. I tried changing to Dynamic Drive and nothing happens - it's reported as a Basic drive. The IDE drive was on an XP system at current rev, I moved it to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition. Is there something I need to do to the disk to see it? I tried this with both IDE drives, and several combinations. I currently have the old D drive from XP in there thinking there was a drive name conflict (but I don't think that's the case). Any info on how to read the drive would be greatly appreciated. It's like Server 2K3 knows it's there and is good but it can't get to it...
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December 7th 03, 08:48 PM
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Just because the drive is seen and is reported as healthy doesn't say anything about whether data is on the drive!
It is very possible that eventhough the drive survived all information about the previous content of the drive may have been lost. After all a FAT/MBR is not bullet proof and can easily be lost under less demanding conditions then the death of system hardware! The fact you have a good backup is a plus... I would think long and hard about trusting this particular drive(s) with important data in the future. You MAY be able to get the data by sending the drive to a company that specializes in data retreval but at best it would cost a great deal, and may not deleiver anything at all. BTW, I build and repair computer systems, have seen this happen before. Feel free to go elsewhere for another opinion if you choose. Len "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... If no one has any ideas is there another NG I should be asking this in? Thanks for your advice! "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... PS - status is Healthy (Active) the other SCSI drive is Healthy (System). Even though it's healthy I can't get to it and none of the help is applicable... "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... HI all, thanks for the help -- I have an XP system with 2 IDE drives. The system appears to have been zapped, the mother board is bad I suspect. I have taken everything out but the motherboard and floppy, and booting to MSDOS even dies in about 5 seconds. My last backup was about 3 days ago so I would like to recover the last 3 days if I can. I took the 2 IDE disks and one by one, put them on my server (which has 2 SCSI disks). To simplify, I just kept the 'C" SCSI disk online, so when I go into disk admin I see the C drive and an un-named second drive pronounced "healthy", but it has no driver letter, file system, and it's status is 100% disk space free. I cannot do anything to the drive, ie set a drive letter etc. I tried changing to Dynamic Drive and nothing happens - it's reported as a Basic drive. The IDE drive was on an XP system at current rev, I moved it to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition. Is there something I need to do to the disk to see it? I tried this with both IDE drives, and several combinations. I currently have the old D drive from XP in there thinking there was a drive name conflict (but I don't think that's the case). Any info on how to read the drive would be greatly appreciated. It's like Server 2K3 knows it's there and is good but it can't get to it...
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December 7th 03, 08:59 PM
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Use drive rescue, a freeware program, it looks for lost
files/partitions on a sector by sector level...take that Mr."I build and repair computer systems" -----Original Message----- Just because the drive is seen and is reported as healthy doesn't say anything about whether data is on the drive! It is very possible that eventhough the drive survived all information about the previous content of the drive may have been lost. After all a FAT/MBR is not bullet proof and can easily be lost under less demanding conditions then the death of system hardware! The fact you have a good backup is a plus... I would think long and hard about trusting this particular drive (s) with important data in the future. You MAY be able to get the data by sending the drive to a company that specializes in data retreval but at best it would cost a great deal, and may not deleiver anything at all. BTW, I build and repair computer systems, have seen this happen before. Feel free to go elsewhere for another opinion if you choose. Len "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... If no one has any ideas is there another NG I should be asking this in? Thanks for your advice! "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... PS - status is Healthy (Active) the other SCSI drive is Healthy (System). Even though it's healthy I can't get to it and none of the help is applicable... "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... HI all, thanks for the help -- I have an XP system with 2 IDE drives. The system appears to have been zapped, the mother board is bad I suspect. I have taken everything out but the motherboard and floppy, and booting to MSDOS even dies in about 5 seconds. My last backup was about 3 days ago so I would like to recover the last 3 days if I can. I took the 2 IDE disks and one by one, put them on my server (which has 2 SCSI disks). To simplify, I just kept the 'C" SCSI disk online, so when I go into disk admin I see the C drive and an un-named second drive pronounced "healthy", but it has no driver letter, file system, and it's status is 100% disk space free. I cannot do anything to the drive, ie set a drive letter etc. I tried changing to Dynamic Drive and nothing happens - it's reported as a Basic drive. The IDE drive was on an XP system at current rev, I moved it to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition. Is there something I need to do to the disk to see it? I tried this with both IDE drives, and several combinations. I currently have the old D drive from XP in there thinking there was a drive name conflict (but I don't think that's the case). Any info on how to read the drive would be greatly appreciated. It's like Server 2K3 knows it's there and is good but it can't get to it...
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December 7th 03, 09:10 PM
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If you have a workable solution for the OP that I don't have experience with
that is great! I hope it resolves the issue. No cheap shots are required however to do that! I never claimed to be an expert or the last word in HD maintenance... just shared my experience. Good Luck to the OP, Len "Anon" wrote in message ... Use drive rescue, a freeware program, it looks for lost files/partitions on a sector by sector level...take that Mr."I build and repair computer systems" -----Original Message----- Just because the drive is seen and is reported as healthy doesn't say anything about whether data is on the drive! It is very possible that eventhough the drive survived all information about the previous content of the drive may have been lost. After all a FAT/MBR is not bullet proof and can easily be lost under less demanding conditions then the death of system hardware! The fact you have a good backup is a plus... I would think long and hard about trusting this particular drive (s) with important data in the future. You MAY be able to get the data by sending the drive to a company that specializes in data retreval but at best it would cost a great deal, and may not deleiver anything at all. BTW, I build and repair computer systems, have seen this happen before. Feel free to go elsewhere for another opinion if you choose. Len "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... If no one has any ideas is there another NG I should be asking this in? Thanks for your advice! "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... PS - status is Healthy (Active) the other SCSI drive is Healthy (System). Even though it's healthy I can't get to it and none of the help is applicable... "Don Awalt" wrote in message ... HI all, thanks for the help -- I have an XP system with 2 IDE drives. The system appears to have been zapped, the mother board is bad I suspect. I have taken everything out but the motherboard and floppy, and booting to MSDOS even dies in about 5 seconds. My last backup was about 3 days ago so I would like to recover the last 3 days if I can. I took the 2 IDE disks and one by one, put them on my server (which has 2 SCSI disks). To simplify, I just kept the 'C" SCSI disk online, so when I go into disk admin I see the C drive and an un-named second drive pronounced "healthy", but it has no driver letter, file system, and it's status is 100% disk space free. I cannot do anything to the drive, ie set a drive letter etc. I tried changing to Dynamic Drive and nothing happens - it's reported as a Basic drive. The IDE drive was on an XP system at current rev, I moved it to Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition. Is there something I need to do to the disk to see it? I tried this with both IDE drives, and several combinations. I currently have the old D drive from XP in there thinking there was a drive name conflict (but I don't think that's the case). Any info on how to read the drive would be greatly appreciated. It's like Server 2K3 knows it's there and is good but it can't get to it...
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