Satin gave me a hard drive, and it killed my pc

[R4736]

I hooked up my laptop HD (with a converter) to my pc to transfer music to it faster that over a network. after I shut down the pc removed the laptop drive, and reinstalled the regular Hard drive that goes there (hard drive#3) and when i went into windows i looked at my 40 gig drive and it said it was 4gb and looked just like the laptop hard drive! I realy dont see how that could happen it looked as if the part/fat table was transfered from one drive to another even thoe they were never in the pc at the same time! That was problem 1, now problem 2. I was trying difrent free hd/part recovery tools like partreco.exe, mbrwork.exe, mrecover.exe, and wpartnfix bootdisk. None of them were able to find the correct partition for the damaged disk mentioned above. When I was useing partreco, or mrecover i accidentaly used it on the c: drive because it dident have an option to pick the drive. So now because of my mystake I have 2 bad drives. But, When I boot with a dos disk and access the c drive and do a dir it displays info but somthings are wrong like winnt is not a dir. I am just lost, I was trying to dig my self out of a hole and just fell down further. ANY info will be greatly appreciated.

Windows 2000
drive 1 c: 10gb
drive 2 (not important)
drive 3 e: 40gb
laptop hard drive (satin) 4gb

thanks in advance
Brad Richter
"Trying is the first step towards failure" (Homer Simpson)

 

[R4736]

Let me clarify what happened

Os windows 2000

3 drives installed in pc
all set to auto in bios
drives are all fat 32
1 c: 10gb
2 d: (no problem so ignore)
3 e: 40gb
4 laptops hardrive (evil) 4gb
step by step what happened

1 removed drive 4 from laptop and connected it to pc with converter where drive 3 is usually connected
2 transferred mp3¡¦s to drive 4
3 removed laptop hd put it back in laptop.. works fine
4 reconnected drive 3 (no jumpers or bios changes)
5 when In windows I tried to look at drive 3 and noticed it said it was only 4gb and looked exactly like drive 4 same dir structure and files but you cannot access any files
6 downloaded mbrwork.exe, mrecover.exe, partreco.exe, and wpartnfix bootdisk.
Mbrwork mrecover and wpartnfix dident work they could only see partitions that looked just like drive 4
7 when I used partreco it dident allow me to specify a drive and only was designed to be used on the c drive and when I tried to cancel it went ahead and ran anyways and now my drive 1 is messed up it will not boot and when I use a boot disk and look at drive one it lists the correct dirs and files as far as I can see but some of the dir¡¦s are not listed as dir¡¦s

I hope this clarifies my problem I know I have difficulties expressing my thoughts for others to understand ļ

 

[roandrob]

Try removing the 3rd hard drive in windows system properies. Reboot and the proper hard drive should be found by the operating system.

Go to start/Right click on My computer/Click on properies/Click on hardware tab/ click on device manager/click on the disk drive tab + sign or double click to expand/ right click on the hard drive that is incorrect and click on uninstall. You can also see properties for drives and possibly refresh from here.

 

[R4736]

as in my earlier mesages i have stated that my c: drive is now damaged and i cannot boot into windows and have already tried fdisk /mbr

 

[roandrob]

Sounds bad. you say you can see your files on drive one (C with a floppy boot. If you can copy any data info files you need to another drive you can then try a reinstall of the operating system. I suspect you may have to reformat and do a clean install. Sorry I can not be more helpfull but not sure what you have done to partition on C: drive

Good luck

 

[R4736]

i accidentaly ran partreco.exe on the c drive i tried emailing the author of the program to help me but his email is invalid. and the data on the c drive is messed up like i said the names are correct but directories are not listed as directories there shown as files