Never tried on a USB hdd ,but TESTDISK will rebuild the partition table on internal hdds and should work. www:testdisk.com
Would first try booting into pure dos and trying the TYPE FAMILY.DOC and see if it works. Does the diskette have a label that says if it is...
See if these sites help. http://www.auditmypc.com/process/vsutil.asp http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/dlllibrary/vsutil/...
Right click on the C: drive icon-select properties- how much used and free space is listed ? It does pass scandisk ?
Not currently on a XP machine so do not know if your run command displays the same or not. here's the steps at what I'm talking about, may be the...
explain just what you mean. Did you use Ubuntu to make a new partition on hdd #2 ? Is hdd #2 NTFS or FAT32 ? Boot into XP and go to Disk...
There could be at least 2 other reasons and likely many more. 1) bad wire in the IDE cable- try a different one 2) Up to a certain year there...
The hdd with XP- what size is it and what brand/make of comp was it in. My be it had a DDO installed, on old comp when it booted, was there a...
Once in a while XP install will mess up the Volume Boot Record of a 2 hdd and request to format the partition. Normally the hdd/partition will...
Must agree with "mattman" if the bios does not let you select 5.25 drive then you are out of luck. Depending on age of floppy it could have ID...
If you have not written to the old E: drive yet , you files may still be recoverable, but I have never tried on a NTFS drive system. If the...
each track is normally 63 sectors (some old hdds are different) so you would need 512*63=32256 . You can go to...
That would work only if the hdd file system is FAT32 and not NTFS. If you have a MS XP cd , boot into Recovery Console, very likely there is a...
sparrow--Will try to clarify some points OP has a 6g hdd with 2 primary partitions. 1 with XP and the other has 98. With the use of PQBoot 1...
The main problem is his boot manager 'PQBoot'. When he installed the second OS he had PQBoot hide the first OS, so now both are installed on C:....
Better rethink this out, it is to easy to drop some needed info from my brain sometimes. Due to both OS's are on C: it may not work to good to use...
It will but some modifications to the debug code may be needed. You do not need to do the first parts only the Debug code. If you have never...
Third party boot managers can be useful if one needs to hide a partition but I would not use PQBoot due to having to reboot to change OS's. To...
You must reboot after useing fdisk for DOS to see the new/changed partitions. If the hdd is for loading the system on be sure to make the primary...
Most recovery cd's will format the hdd first off , so all data would be lost, would need to read the how to use from manufacture of cd to be sure....
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