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Very, Very , Very BAD computer Problem.

by anunash Jul 11, 2004 12:25AM PDT

First my Computers Config
My 1 st computer
Pentium Celeron 333
8.4 GB HD
Win 2k
Win XP
128 MB RAM
Win 2K on NTFS
Win XP on FAT 32
2 Partitions

My 2nd Computer

Pentium 4 1.5
40 GB HDD
Nvidia TNT2 32 MB VRAM
256 MB RAM
Win XP on NTFS
Win XP on NTFS
No Partition

Now my problem is this:

My 2nd computer and my first computer used to running fine.

Suddenly one fine day I switch on my 2nd computer and both the OS's give me a Stop error (I had installed one of them to boot and access to my data). So I tried to put the 40 GB HD in the first comp, but the 1st comp does not support large hard disks.

So i tried to put the old 8.4 GB Hard Disk in the new one and it gives me a stop error when I try to boot into 2K. So I installed XP on FAT 32 to access the 40 GB HD. I then tried to boot into it without the new (40 GB HD), and it booted, but when I connected the new HD as a slave, it just refused to boot, as in XP on 8.4 HD just keeps loading without any further progress. When I connected the new HD as Secondary Master, it boots, but then it does not access the new HD. When I try to access the old HD it says it is to be formatted. When I try to install XP on the 40 GB HD, it tells me to format the partition.

I tried to boot in safe mode but it gives me the same error, bt it shows that all the files are loading. The XP boot screen appears, my data is important, what do I do to retrieve the data from my 40 GB Hard Disk?

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Re: Very, Very , Very BAD computer Problem.
by anunash Jul 11, 2004 1:55AM PDT

Please help, i really need it!!!

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Re: Very, Very , Very BAD computer Problem.
by HerbChong Jul 14, 2004 9:54AM PDT

both OSs giving you a STOP error at the same time is a very big coincidence. to me, that means someone has broken into your systems or you have been infected by a virus and it has destroyed part of your system. you will have to take the drives and put them into a working Windows 2000 or XP computer and copy the important data off the drives that way.

Herb...

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Re: Very, Very , Very BAD computer Problem.
by anunash Jul 29, 2004 3:34AM PDT

No, nobody has broken into the computer and i dont have a virus. I just switch on the computer one fine day and it gives me this error, i loaded linux but that doensnt seem to help and i will have to use some other 3rd party tool in linux. GetDataBack lists my files but i cant recover them, in fact even DOS lists my files, but the disk is NTFS so problem.

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As herb has said..
by Melati Hitam Jul 29, 2004 6:29AM PDT

take the HD out, and install it as Slave on a working PC, then copy your data.

After that its up to you .. you want to try to reformat/reinstall or try to find the cause.

Knoppix Cd can recover your data and copy to EXTERNAL HD or CD.. it can not copy to Master or slave HD (atleast that what I did a couple month ago)

Good Luck

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setup problem
by drops Dec 25, 2004 3:18AM PST

First my Computers Config
My 1 st computer
Pentium Celeron 333
8.4 GB HD
Win 2k
Win XP
128 MB RAM
Win 2K on NTFS
Win XP on FAT 32
2 Partitions

My 2nd Computer

Pentium 4 1.5
40 GB HDD
Nvidia TNT2 32 MB VRAM
256 MB RAM
Win XP on NTFS
Win XP on NTFS
No Partition

Now my problem is this:

My 2nd computer and my first computer used to running fine.

Suddenly one fine day I switch on my 2nd computer and both the OS's give me a Stop error (I had installed one of them to boot and access to my data). So I tried to put the 40 GB HD in the first comp, but the 1st comp does not support large hard disks.

So i tried to put the old 8.4 GB Hard Disk in the new one and it gives me a stop error when I try to boot into 2K. So I installed XP on FAT 32 to access the 40 GB HD. I then tried to boot into it without the new (40 GB HD), and it booted, but when I connected the new HD as a slave, it just refused to boot, as in XP on 8.4 HD just keeps loading without any further progress. When I connected the new HD as Secondary Master, it boots, but then it does not access the new HD. When I try to access the old HD it says it is to be formatted. When I try to install XP on the 40 GB HD, it tells me to format the partition.

I tried to boot in safe mode but it gives me the same error, bt it shows that all the files are loading. The XP boot screen appears, my data is important, what do I do to retrieve the data from my 40 GB Hard Disk?

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