All,
My old 160GB pata disk is alive and running strong. Tim, thanks for the
offer. The fix was found behind the Repair Install HELP command of the
XP Boot CD. FIXMBR and FIXBOOT are my new friends.
A new XPpro system is now running and I am doing my personal tweaks.
Yes, I still suspect the psu is sagging. I will watch it.
Yes, I found that my KBD has a fully defective <enter> key. Hmm.
Life continues with an old machine; minus its' old scsi stuff!
Odd. This old box boots faster now! Thank you all!
Best,
Duncan
On 06/25/2010 15:43, DSinc wrote:
Tim,
Thank you. This HD has been sitting in my home for some past months with
its' note to "send to TIM!"
I just never did this. Life got in the way......... :)
I elected to try this hd 1 more time before it goes to the DOKTOR!
If I can not get this situation to work (locally), I will ship the HD to
you. Yes, I accept all "owner-dorked" charges!!!!!....... :)
BTW, R***87 worked perfectly! Thank you. I got back most of what I
decided I really needed. Well, after I figured out how to dig through
your recovery! MY BAD!
I am still marching through that DATA. It is, on balance, history now.
But I still search it for stuff that comes to mind whenever.
Tossed much. Saved lots. The NAS is happy ATM. Happy I am.
Thank you,
Duncan
On 06/25/2010 14:29, Tim Lider wrote:
Duncan,
You can always send it to me and if there is nothing wrong with the drive
physically I can edit the other volumes in using a hex editor. This will
cost shipping to and from where I am at.
Regards,
Tim Lider
Sr. Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
http://www.adv-data.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 8:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Old pata disk?
JRS,
Thanks. I do see your point. But, for so many years I have tried to
avoid having the OS and DATA on the same partition.
Yet, I may still just do as you suggest.
ATM, I suspect either a problem in the MBR (dorked sectors, rootkit?,
whatever?), or, missing/corrupt XP boot files in the C:\ partition. I
have seen fixes/repairs for both of these situations on my XP CD's
recovery console.
Investigation continues.
Worst case: I'll just kiss off the contents of D/E/F and just start
completely fresh. And, then do all the normal monkey-business I need to
do for MS to be happy!
Best,
Duncan
On 06/24/2010 23:09, JRS wrote:
If it's only 160 gigs, just reformat and make it all one partition.
:)
--
JRS
[email protected]
Facts do not cease to exist just
because they are ignored.
----- Original Message ----
From: DSinc<[email protected]>
To: Hardware Group<[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, June 24, 2010 5:23:14 PM
Subject: [H] Old pata disk?
So, it does not boot (Old WinXP).
Older pata 160GB HD. Previously used to
test Pata/Sata converters (Sabrent). Stuff happened. OK!!! :)
M/B Bios
sees this HD fine.
Boots to/from this HD NOT.
Boots to/from this CRROM
OK.
The C:\ partition seems to be dorked up. No boot.
Not a bit
surprised.
Not a real problem yet.
I stopped dorking around......
:)
The D:\ partition looks OK via my BART-CMD-DIR The E:\ partition
looks OK via my BART-CMD-DIR
The F:\ partition looks OK via my
BART-CMD-DIR
Is this one of those ReFormat/Re-Load WinXP to C:\ and hope
for the best for D, E, and F?
Wondering I am.
Best,
Duncan
