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  1. Posted

    Again, lol, yes I know...

     

    Heres another. I need a program (acronis recoverexpert not working) to scan a drive for files/partitions to recover files. I really want a program I tried months ago and it worked to recover files from a 100GB drive that were lost when the partition got damagaed. Of course, I don't remember the name of the program, nor do I have it...

     

     

    I believe someone sent me an e-mail, with the program, or the name of the program to try, I think this was the program thata worked... if you are this person, please let me know again! i'd be greatly appreciative.

     

    if anyone knows a program that can do this, let me know that also.

     

    thx guys

  2. Posted

    Well here's my problem:

     

    I have a 2GB drive that had WinXP Pro installed on it. Something happened and had to reformat the drive. Before I remembered I had already reformatted it and began installing the OS again. By the time I had realized what I had done it was too late. I had installed WinXP on the partition fully. I needed to recover a outlook express address book out of a users personal settings. But I think it's too late for that even with a recovery program. I doubt I can get that file back frown

     

    I have an other 40GB drive (mine personally) that had 2 partitions on it. A C: one for the WinXP OS and a D: one for data. The drive started acting funky and failed. Now I cannot format it, FDISK doesn't see it, partition magic, WinXP Disk Manager... nothing. The FAT, or the partition table, or MBR is damaged. There are sectors of the drive that cannot be accessed. Something bad happened to this drive. I doubt I can recover that either, becuase it probably has some sort of physical damage. I trieed Acronis Recovery Expert, the demo and it could not find any partitions on the drive. Which leads me to assume the drive is damaged beyond repair. As far as i know, there is no way that I can recover the files I need. frown

     

    So I think I'm screwed here in both instances... What do you guys think?

  3. Posted

    If I recall correctly none of these programs actually worked. I remember seeing all of them too.

     

    I'd just like to know, where the hell did that thread go? I know it was in this forum, or at least this site! I can't find it in a search... weird...

     

    Does anyone remember it? I found a program, that worked great... It was not acronis, or any of the ones mentioned here so far. Unfortinatly I cannot remember any part of the name. All I can remember is using the program to find out it did work.

     

    The program, worked a specific way, maybe someone knows this program;

     

    It scans for damaged or lost partitions, if any are found, you can find the data that was on those partitions, and recover it, but you have to copy it to another location, another drive. And I lost all the date created attributes to all the files. I know because nearly all my files on my server say created 11-Nov-02 because thats the date I recovered those files...

     

    Maybe this will trigger someones memory, it doesn't mine... frown

  4. Posted

    I made a thread several months ago here, I think in this forum. Asking for help on finding a partition recovery program because I thought I screwed the partition on my 100gb drive. And well, I've done a search in the forums here and cannot find it! It's dissapeared! Does anyone remember this? Any info would be usefull...

     

    I am looking for that thread again, because I want to download the program I found to do this type of thing. It worked too. It was a program like Acronis, something... I remember the company name Acronis, it was a partition recovery prog.

     

    There is another prog though I can't remember what its named but it does this too... I'm looking for it on the net, but if I could find the thread that I found it in here that'd be great.

     

    Any help appreciated. Thanks!

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    i had winxp installed, and then installed win98... i've done this before and it worked fine. but this time for some reason it does not give me a boot option screen... i'm not sure what happened. i know winxp is still on there and it probably work fine. i just need to fix the boot.ini file. but i dont know how to do it.

     

    can someone help me out here?

     

    winxp = c:\windows

    win98 = c:\win98

     

    fat32 partition, disk 0.

     

    i can supply to the boot.ini file if needed.

  10. Posted

    Well, I hope they will at least replace it, I have the data backed up, well, most of it. I dont want to loose 40GB, or, $80 rather is what it costs now.

  11. Posted

    Well I have tried nearly all of these suggestions and none have helped. frown I will try a few more of them when I get time again at work. I don't know what the deal is.

     

    I did run a benchmark on the wireless system, using SiSoft Sandra software. From one building to the other building's servere and vice a versa. And was pleased to see an average of 720 kbps. Pings averaged from 3-10 ms. and there was no packet loss. I will try some other time during different weather conditions and such see if it makes a difference.

     

    Anyway, off I go. I will try more stuff soon.

  12. Posted

    I have checked the connections, there appears to be no problems.

     

    I have replaced the drive, I went out and bought a new 60GB Maxtor drive last night. But, I just HATE loosing a drive, especially if it has decent storage capacity, and is still under warranty. I will be calling WD within the next day or so when I get time.

     

    It does look like a power issue, but it is NOT my power supply. I have tried this drive in 3 different computers, all with the same problem. a 300 watt, a 520 watt, and a 350 watt supply. I think it is something wrong with the actual HD. As I mentioned, the power distribution node could be damaged, a part that gives power to the rest of the HD.

     

    It is not bad cabling either, I tried over 15 different IDE cables, the old 40-pins, 80-pin conductor ribbon cables, and even the new 80-pin rounded ones. Made no differeence.

     

    I have tested it in 3 machines, I think the drive is damaged too far. I think I will have to contact WD, in hopes they can replace it at the very least.

     

    I think that concludes this thread. Thanks for all the help guys, now I know what the problem is.

  13. Posted

    Well a few weeks trial... and this isn't working so great. I can't find a way to do what I need.

     

    Is what I want is to have it create a backup file, of the ENTIRE drive (d:\). Then, every night, I want it to update, not add the files that were changed since the last backup. I had this backup file getting MASSIVE becuase it was just growing.

     

    I can't find out how to do this, maybe i'm just stupid. Can someone explain how to do this with MS backup... or, if I can't, suggest a program that can.

     

    Thanks...

  15. Posted

    Damn it! I tried the fix mbr in DOS using Win98 boot CD... No work just said "No fixed disks present."

     

    On to the WD tools... This is becoming very annoying...

     

    Edit:

     

    Well the diagnostic utility found the drive... this is what it said:

     

    "UNKNOWN ERROR

     

    ERROR/STATUS CODE: 0101"

     

    So it looks like i'll be calling tech support. Hopfully they can help me out since the drive is still under warranty.

  16. Posted

    ahhh, thats what i recognize... thanks! i will try that, hopfully it will work.

     

    I may D/L the WD tools too, I formatted the disk a long time ago cause I thought i'd never need it... lol, how ironic.

     

    thanks! i'll let ya know if it works

  19. Posted

    Beleive me, those were the first things I tried. I've tried different cables, power connectors, even different computers! No go...

     

    I tihnk the FAT is damaged or the MBR is damaged, or both.

     

    The cables I am currently using are rounded IDE cables, and the power connectors have no externders on them. The connectors are fine, work great in all other drives.

  20. Posted

    Well... Tried it. It can't find the OS, so it just goes to the repair consol.... typing in FIXMBR does nothing, just returns to the C: prompt with no response.

     

    But I can hear the hard drive clicking, transferring data. is there another way to fix the MBR or file allocation tables?

  23. Posted

    I got a 40 GB Western Digital IDE ATA-100 hard drive i've had a few years now, never had any problems with it. Until I attempted to use Partition Magic 7 to convert a partition on the drive from NTFS to FAT32. Now I have done this before, with success, and on this drive. But this time something happened.

     

    When I boot up sometimes the drive will not be detected at all. It takes fiddling around with the cables and a few restarts to get it working after each complete shut down. A restart is fine... The drive, when it first turns on will often (some times it doesnt) reset its power node, you can hear the drive power down, and back on. Several times (which damages drives, doesn't it?) in a row. I usually rearrange the power cable a few millimeters or so and that fixes it. My guess is there is some sort of short in the power distribution node... But this does not seem to be the only, and most major problem.

     

    When the drive does work and get detected properly on POST, it does NOT show up in Windows Disk Managment. However, when booting off the WinXP CD, it does detect the drive, but says that setup cannot access this drive. Is the partition damaged or something? Can I fix this? The drive appears to be working and it shows properly in the POST as a 40GB drive...

     

    I recall something with the MBR, a command you could do in DOS or something... Does anyone remember this?

     

    BTW, the drive does not appear in FDISK. But it DOES appear in the windows device manager... But not in disk managment... So, something is going on, but the drive does work...

     

    Any help is always appreciated. Thanks

     

    EDIT: Something interesting... I installed Partition Magic 7 to see if it could detect the drive... and when I start it up it says

     

    "Init failed: Error 100.

     

    Partition table is bad"

     

    SO... something is messed up here. What can I do?

  24. Posted

    Ahhhh! For some reason, and it didn't used to do this. My motherboard in my server will only allow a max of 2 drives! And I've got 2 IDE ports. So theoretically, (and it used to work) I should be able to have 4 IDE drives!!! But, for some reason it will only accept one per IDE port! WTF is going on here?

     

    I've tried different drives, cables, jumper settings, BIOS settings... So, what the hell is the deal? Anyone have this problem or can help me fix this.

  25. Posted

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    Well, one lousy NIC can throw the whole show into the can... it can & does happen!

    A way to eliminate that is to pull the nodes one by one & have them logon while that particular person is NOT online, & see if you still drag once you have gone thru them all eliminating the "bad-seed" in the mix!

    (Yes... a hassle!)

    That seems kind of weird, but will check into it. It would be a pain in the ass but I'll see what I can do. Maybe there is a diagnostic program I can use on the NICs.
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    Ok... by software, do you mean like a new driver update gone bad for some of that equipment, or possibly a Windows Update that hosed it?

    OR, something a user installed into the mix that affects your whole LAN there??

    Ummm, no, I don't think so. I don't know. I think it has something to do with Windows. I don't understand, but I have a preminition it is software based problem, but I could be wrong. I'll see if I can figure something out.
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    You sure that switch is running 100% still? Could be it's on its way out... that does happen too! Something to test...


    Like I mentioned in the beginning, I tried one of my 100 MBPS full switch that I know works fine, I noticed no performance increase from a 10 MBPS hub to a 100 MBPS switch. That shows something is weird.
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    You're probably right about that, it's bouncing all over the place & broadcasts not in a "shaped-charge" type wave (shaped by conical device/shield) but more like a ripple on a pond I'd imagine, circularly/spherically outwards from the center broadcasting point!


    That seems logical and I'm pretty sure thats what is happening. But I have not really noticed much degration or failures in the signal, it's just slow which is expected.

    Well I will of course try these things and options and see what I can do. Thanks very much for all your help. If you get any other ideas please tell me. I hope to get this resolved. Thanks a bunch...
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