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Corrupt fat table ?

  • 11-08-2006 2:35pm
    #1
    garred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭


    I was replacing an old 98 machine with a new xp stations. After setting up the new station I added the 98 hard drive as a slave to copy files over. When booting up into windows xp I could not see the 98 hard drive. After running disk manager it was there but it was looking to initialize the drive which I stupidly did. It was then looking to create logical drive/format which I did not do as the data would be overwritten. I powered down the machine and put the drive back in the 98 machine but it will not boot (cannot find OS). I tried it as slave on another 98 machine but again cannot see it in my computer but it is detected in bios. I tried booting up with 98 boot disk but cannot access the c: drive.
    I obviously screwed up the partition table by initialising it but can I rectify this as the data is important? Any suggestions ?

    PS : I have tried ghosting it but ghost won't recognise the drive neither.


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  • #2
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    garred wrote:
    it was looking to initialize the drive
    What do you mean by this? Normally it will ask to format it if it can't read it from my experience.


  • #3
    garred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭garred


    It could see it in disk manager but there was the red circle white x icon. When I right-clicked this it had initialise, which as I said I stupidly did. After doing this and right click the create volume was the option which was when I powered down the machine and tried putting it back into its own station.


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