Help! Lost HDD contents

[SteveC]

Hi all,

In need of some assistance here - I just thought I'd do a windows update, and it wanted a few security patches to install, so I let it. Then I did the reboot as asked, then windows (win2k sp2) wouldn't boot up...

After a few attempts of safe mode etc, it now boots OK, apart from one thing - my d drive (17Gb WD) is now 'unformatted' !

However, In DOS (win98 boot disk) I can access the drive fine, and scandisk says no errors. Running PQMagic6 in DOS says the drive is unformatted...

Any bright ideas?

One thing - I was using a poor PSU (see flickering monitor thread), but I've just replaced it with a 300watter and it made no difference.

[SteveC]

Ah don't worry! Fixed it

Fdisk /mbr'ed it and then SYSed it, and all is well again in Stevie Land

[xortam]

I was able to recover a drive that was unpartitioned under W2K. My removable boot drive wasn't seated quite right and after getting many disk errors, I rebooted the system to find that the partition wasn't visible anymore, under any OS. I went into the recovery console of W2K and lo and behold, all was recovered w/o a problem. Luv it!

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See your "fixed it" post now. Well keep the recovery console in mind for any future problems.
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