good luck. and yes a bad IDE cable might let bios see the device but still not work propery. If you have space on the hdd , my opion would be...
You do not need an OS installed on hdd to use a boot floppy, 98 or XP's. Main thing tring to find out is will the comp boot with a bootable...
I think you had better find out the problem with the comp first ,befor worying about the OS install. I will assume you have a floppy drive in...
Just to let you know, my use of XP is not great. But have installed it on my comp several times (only good for 30 days). Normal it does not...
Due to not wanting to mess up my hdd, I can only make an educated guess on some of the steps required. After the deep search and it shows...
On the first testdisk page you posted where you pressed "Proceed ", if you seleted "SAVE" that command will save a copy of the Partition Table...
You will need to use the MS CD and boot into the Recovery Console and run FIXBOOT and FIXMBR. When you insalled XP on the other comp the boot...
I installed GoBack from SystemWorks 2002 on one of my systems and it only chaged the Master Partition Table file type from 0C (Fat32) to 44 (??)...
selecting just parts of your post: : the 07 in data above says the partition is NTFS but if I look at : it lists the partition type as...
Need to see the partition table , to help see if it has a problem or not. If you have Power Magic , use Partition Info (PartIn.exe). Other...
Need more info. 1) Did it ever work or you are trying to set it up ? if it did work, what changes did you make right befor it stoped ? 2)What...
Is GoBack installed now or did you remove it ? Will likely need to take a look at the partition table- I do not use XP much so not sure- use OS...
Your problem seems to me to happen quite often with XP. Would try TESTDISK first, be sure to read the how to use first....
read my first post on resizeing C: after deleating the extended partition. there are other programs besides the two I listed. Presizer is used...
You will need a third party program to resize the primary partition. Can not be done by dos or window commands. One free program is Presizer...
That error states you need 27M bytes of HDD space not memory. Run scandisk on the drive , it may correct an OS reporting error of free space. is...
Would go to the hdd manufactures web site and test with their hdd utility to find out if hdd is bad or not. IF the hdd is good there are recovery...
What OS are you useing ? XP ? If XP, what does hdd show under Disk Management? Is it 2 hdd's or 1 hdd with 2 partitions?
If PM will not work try "testdisk" http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
basicly agree with PeteC , but I did take MS Works from one hdd to another. It took me about 20+hrs and may still not be 100%, it was on Win98...
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