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Old master disk, now slave, can't get at data - partition table corrupt?

Asked by carled in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: master, slave, disk, old, get

Oh god. I hate disks... I had a 200GB samsung drive installed with the os on (XP) and two SATA drives as extra storage.

The OS was getting corrupt - icons missing and programme errors, so I decided to buy a new disk and reinstall, then put in old master drive as a slave and copy over the data.

I Started off with all drives except cd and new Seagate disk installed, installed OS and got it all up and running. Fine so far.

I then plugged in my SATA drives and went to change the old Samsung Master to slave mode. At that point I noticed that the jumper was already in slave position and I remembered that the Samsung did used to come up as primary slave, even though it was the C: drive. No worries, I put the disk in, Windows started up, the two SATA drives were recognised and no problems. Couldn't find the old 200GB drive though. Remembered I probably had to add it to disk manager and when I started it, the wizard popped up asking me to add the disk then whether I wanted to make it a dynamic disk. "what the heck," I thought, "go on then."

At this point, the alarm bell started tinkling. I could see the disk in disk manager, but it was showing as "unpartitioned space". I created a volume, told it NOT to format and tried to access it. "Do you want to format this drive" comes up. "NO I don't" I shouted at my pc...

Downloaded a demo version of medial tools pro. Told it to recover partitions, but after running for 55 minutes, it comes up saying "no valid file system" and if I use the "file tree recover" (another 55 minutes) it finds all sorts of nonsense symbols and crap, with the occasional recognisable file name, but hardly anything of use.

I've now unplugged everything as I don't want to cause more damage... I can't believe I've lost everything - nothing's been formatted...

Any ideas? Other programmes to try? I'm lost!

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Old master disk, now slave, can't get at data - partition table corrupt?

Asked by carled in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: master, slave, disk, old, get

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