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"Search and Recover" is a product I have found useful. I've used versions 3 & 4, don't recall using or even installing v.5. Haven't needed anything for a long while (knock on wood). They appear to have gone to an "annual fee" program, which they didn't have with versions 3 & 4. Fred Holmes At 09:21 PM 12/27/2009, rocky lee wrote: >The patient: >P4 Gateway. >Windows XP. >500GB hard drive. > >On boot, the computer cannot locate the start up volume. >When the I ran the Windows XP Installer disk, it sees >the physical hard drive, but not the previously installed >system. It sees an un-partitioned space on the physical drive. > >I am guessing that something how gone awry with the file system, either >the master boot record, or the database of the file system. > >At this point, i can clone the disk and work with a copy and pull of some >of the photo files, but is there more i can do with disk utility software >to restore the files and the file structure that was there, or am i at the >point where i need to salvage what files i can and start with a reformat and a >clean install of windows xp? > >The hard drive is less than a year old and physically seems sound. >Would/could this condition be caused by a power surge, virus, or other event? > >Thanks, > >Rocky > > > > > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
