Data recovery - PC with two hdds (striped raid?) - XP
Opened up a PC with two hdds - it was booting to windows previously but wasnt recog any usb storage devices I attached. Wanted to get data off.
Opened PC > Attached a usb to sata connector with a view to taking data off. Didnt see any hdds so I reattached the hdds as was to PC
Boot error > realized it was a striped raid perhaps
PC boots to error - windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
<windows root>\system 32\ntoskrnl.exe
Booted up with UMBUNTU
Can see files I want
Copy to a usb drive
When I put usb drive in laptop with win7 it says - format usb drives - cannot read :-(
What to do?
Opened PC > Attached a usb to sata connector with a view to taking data off. Didnt see any hdds so I reattached the hdds as was to PC
Boot error > realized it was a striped raid perhaps
PC boots to error - windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
<windows root>\system 32\ntoskrnl.exe
Booted up with UMBUNTU
Can see files I want
Copy to a usb drive
When I put usb drive in laptop with win7 it says - format usb drives - cannot read :-(
What to do?
what pc is this? and what disk drives are they? sata or IDE ?
>> Didnt see any hdds so I reattached the hdds as was to PC << why did you disconnect them? for connecting an usb to sata connector you do not need that they be disconnected normally
>> Didnt see any hdds so I reattached the hdds as was to PC << why did you disconnect them? for connecting an usb to sata connector you do not need that they be disconnected normally
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nobus >
what pc is this? and what disk drives are they? sata or IDE ?
Its a Dell PC with x2 sata drives.
>> Didnt see any hdds so I reattached the hdds as was to PC << why did you disconnect them? for connecting an usb to sata connector you do not need that they be disconnected normally
The only thing I did was
open the PC.
Remove sata / power cable from one sata drive.
Attach Sata and power cable from a portable Sata to usb reader and put the usb cable in my Laptop.
Its possible the two PC hdds were a striped raid and the two drives are confused now.
I didnt realise Id spanner the works by just trying to read the dirves separately.
Anyway the drive asked to be formatted so I disconnected
Reconnected the PC
Booted and now it wont go to windows :-(
what pc is this? and what disk drives are they? sata or IDE ?
Its a Dell PC with x2 sata drives.
>> Didnt see any hdds so I reattached the hdds as was to PC << why did you disconnect them? for connecting an usb to sata connector you do not need that they be disconnected normally
The only thing I did was
open the PC.
Remove sata / power cable from one sata drive.
Attach Sata and power cable from a portable Sata to usb reader and put the usb cable in my Laptop.
Its possible the two PC hdds were a striped raid and the two drives are confused now.
I didnt realise Id spanner the works by just trying to read the dirves separately.
Anyway the drive asked to be formatted so I disconnected
Reconnected the PC
Booted and now it wont go to windows :-(
>> Its a Dell PC with x2 sata drives. << sorry feck i asked " what pc is this" and you tell me it's a Dell ? ? come on you're joking - be serious Dell has thousands of models..
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Dell service tag 1p5ng2j
Dimension 5200
Dimension 5200
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If I remove one hdd cable it boots to an error that mentions "striped raid" :-(
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Thanks everyone
It is probably an ext3 or ext4 file system.
Try using ext2fsd
Install it on your Windows 7 laptop, you will probably have to reboot, and try opening the USB drive again.