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Hard Drive partition Inaccessible
By the way, using the Get Data Back software, I am able to view the files. Now just need another drive to copy the data :-) Hopefully this drive will start working again ...- rexian
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive partition Inaccessible
Well, the firewire drive was a different one. The defective partition is on a hard drive which is connected to the system as a slave drive through IDE1 channel. Windows gave an error in Explorer when I tried to access the defective partition. Then I disconnected the firewire drive, but this...- rexian
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive partition Inaccessible
Thanks wahnula. I haven't tried System restore but I probably have it turned off. And also, when I ran chkdsk, it found a lot of invalid entries and deleted them, so I wonder if that would have worked anyway. I'll try this software. My only worry is, since chkdsk deleted lot of files, the...- rexian
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive partition Inaccessible
Hello, I have a Seagate 300GB IDE Hard drive with 2 partitions. Partition 1 (volume name D1) with 32GB and the rest 250GB in Partition 2 (volume name D2). Yesterday suddenly Windows XP gave an error saying it can't access a directory in partition 2 and I need to run chkdsk. It happened after I...- rexian
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