Re: Need help with a totally avoidable problem
"Anonymous" <[email protected]>
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"Frog Prince" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Not sure how to answer that question but the OS is Windows2000 pro and > I've > tried to access as a secondary drive on another machine with the same > OS. > > BTW the HDD from the second machine boots on the 'bad' machine. There are a few of things you can try... You can get a program that will allow you to make low-level, manual accesses to the hard drive, and pull whatever data you need off the drive (even if the drive is not recognized by the OS as formatted)... this is a time consuming and tedious process. If your MBR (Master Boot Record) is all that's messed up on the drive, you can run the fixmbr command and hopefully fix it so the drive can be accessed again. You can get SpinRite and see if that will fix things.