You must be getting sick of me already! :o After installing Vista, XP now will not boot. It gets past the loading screen, onto the loading...
Can someone mark this as resolved? My dad got Linux to work (formatting the partition) when I couldn't, Linux-n00b that I am. This is posted from...
So I'll be stuck on XP then, because I'm not going to erase all the data on the drives. And there wasn't a tool I could find on Western Digital's...
We tried that before - no such thing as a low-level format anymore, and please note that all three hard drives refused to play ball, not just one,...
Me again :rolleyes: After a suspected rootkit virus wiped pretty much everything, I'm trying to reinstall everything. At the moment, I have XP SP3...
When games are taking up 10GB+ a pop now, I definitely need the HDD space.
Success! Eventually I fell across a program called Active@ Parti1tion Manager 1.3.012. This has succeeded in restoring the partition, data and...
TopFarmer, please read previous posts. XP was never actually installed, merely the installation files copied onto a drive different from that...
No matter what we tried, we couldn't rescue the data. :(
Currently using the PC Inspector program, that's gonna take a hell of a time, as the previous program only found a 128GB partition... *sighs*....
Said issue was involving SATA cards, which never worked properly in my experience.
I do... from 2008. I used to backup regularly on my old computer, but I've got out of the habit. I'll make one later, IF I can get the bloody data...
I'm annoyed at myself partly, but there was no way I expected it to lose data on something unrelated. I missed Whiskeyman's post, and at the...
I am now absolutely furious - it's found the partition, much to my delight, but I'm furious that it is asking me to pay to restore the bloody thing!
I've never had a problem with Amazon, but I wasn't debating the SATA issue, and I know full well what a mess that can become from experience, past...
Well, I don't know so much about Newegg, hence why I'd trust Amazon more. I wasn't making any comment about OEM or retail.
No, it doesn't explain how the partition disappeared. And I never got XP installed, due to Dell's crippled BIOS not actually letting me proceed to...
I didn't back up as I couldn't see how a hard drive that wasn't even being touched (XP would've gone on this drive I'm using at the moment) could...
There's less of a risk of the hard drive being DOA, that's what I meant. I never said there is no risk.
No idea if this is in the right place, but after an attempt to install Windows XP for a dualboot, it has somehow caused my 400GB partition,...
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