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
I would just format the disk and either restore your last image or
install Windows clean. Then restore your documents from backup. At
some point, I'd check the drive's SMART status.
Drives sometimes go unformatted like that. Hard to say why; presumably
one important byte value might shift due to
http://www.iolo.com/sr/5/
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
Thanks, Fred.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:58:51 -0500
From: Fred Holmes f...@his.com
Subject: Re: NTFS file system go poof.
http://www.iolo.com/sr/5/
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
