Repairing hard drive after formatting. I have Vista and my would not start and someone formated my hard drive. But is there anyway to get my .back. I have Vista and my would not start and someone formated my hard drive. But is there anyway to get my .back Note...

repairing my hard drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () I have been trying to rescue my hard drive. Chkdsk and the WDC utility both quit because of too many errors on the disk. It is clean of viruses now and will boot...

because there won't be any until you install it. 7. Each OS will know the other is there, because they will each have access to the same hard drives (assuming you keep drive D as FAT32). There is no such thing as a 'primary' OS - there is only the OS that...

the same thing over and over. it has done something like this before but when i put my old hard drive in it comes up with the windows repair hard drive thing but it did not work. can someone please help me! many thanks, max Let's start with "I have clicked...

Hard drive Icon. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Is there a way to repair the Hard Drive icon for one of my partitions? Thank you; David. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Is there...

hard disk. Your best bet is to contact Seagate directly for help. for you information i do not buy or stole anybody's hard disk, this is mine, i was trying to repair my hard drive it has saome bad sector, i was using a Hiren's Boot Cd's. let be clear about...

up, but it only flashes for one second, so it's unreadable. (Why would this be? Shouldn't error messages be readable?). I then decided to do a repair install of WinXP. To do this I wanted to make the DVD drive bootable. So, I attempted to bring up...

to my partition. So then i un pluged hard drive A and i run repair on hard drive B as MASTER and rerun FIXMBR and bootcfg and settup asked me for XP and 2003 OS to add in the list. I added both of them. And after that i can boot through Hard drive B...

still worried (and my boss is paranoid.) Any advice? Do you want to recover the data and repair the hard drive or do you want to format it? Make sure that the cables are secure. You can also try hooking up your hard drive to another computer or purchase...

and I do mean all of them fail during the file copy process after the drive format. Dlls just fail to copy over. I try virgin install media and I swap the IDE DVD drive for a SATA, no joy. I even tried to do a repair on the hard drive from the xp install...