I had a 40G slave hard drive partitioned into 2, the active partition being 10G and the other being 30G. This HD was connected through the ATA 66 cables.
The other day I was surfing around and downloading when suddenly my PC crashed, there wasn't much that I could do so I reset the machine. I was then waiting for WIN XP Pro to reboot but it never did and kept reseting itself having flashed the blue screen.
After some distress and experimenting I found that booting up with ordinary IDE cables worked but was incredibly slow. I noticed that windows was trying to access my slave HD and that it made a quiet buzzing sound every 2 seconds.
Windows detects the extended partition but can't read its name and thinks it is unformatted. I tried using Partiton Magic 8 to see what was wrong but it came up with some CRC error. I also found some software online called Active Partition recovery which boots from DOS. This programme could read the information on the extended partition so I know its still there....
Is there anything I can do to retrieve the data?
PLEASE HELP ME...
The other day I was surfing around and downloading when suddenly my PC crashed, there wasn't much that I could do so I reset the machine. I was then waiting for WIN XP Pro to reboot but it never did and kept reseting itself having flashed the blue screen.
After some distress and experimenting I found that booting up with ordinary IDE cables worked but was incredibly slow. I noticed that windows was trying to access my slave HD and that it made a quiet buzzing sound every 2 seconds.
Windows detects the extended partition but can't read its name and thinks it is unformatted. I tried using Partiton Magic 8 to see what was wrong but it came up with some CRC error. I also found some software online called Active Partition recovery which boots from DOS. This programme could read the information on the extended partition so I know its still there....
Is there anything I can do to retrieve the data?
PLEASE HELP ME...