XP lost my hard drive

Alasitsbroken · 29-07-2008, 09:41 PM

Help.
After a re-install windows will no longer show my "assets" hard drive in my computer.
It shows up fine in bios startup.
I have even tried disconnecting my master drive and making the assets drive a master and boot from cd xp sp2 but windows says that it cannot use the disk without deleting the partition.
How can i get back the important data that is on the disk?

donkey42 · 30-07-2008, 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alastitsbroken

After a re-install windows will no longer show my "assets" hard drive in my computer.
It shows up fine in bios startup.

is the "assets" HDD the only HDD in / on your system

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alastitsbroken

I have even tried disconnecting my master drive and making the assets drive a master and boot from cd xp sp2 but windows says that it cannot use the disk without deleting the partition.
How can i get back the important data that is on the disk?

have you tried to Repair your Windoze instalation ?

presumably your system will not boot from HDD, why ? please explain the situation

Edit: at some point we may require your system specs, so what are they ?

Alasitsbroken · 30-07-2008, 02:05 PM

500gb ide slave "assets"
repaired then re-installed xp
master booting ok

29-07-2008, 09:41 PM	#1 (permalink) Top
Alasitsbroken Geek Trainee Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 Status: Offline	XP lost my hard drive Help. After a re-install windows will no longer show my "assets" hard drive in my computer. It shows up fine in bios startup. I have even tried disconnecting my master drive and making the assets drive a master and boot from cd xp sp2 but windows says that it cannot use the disk without deleting the partition. How can i get back the important data that is on the disk?

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