Skoobie Dhu

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Something happened to the hdd in my desktop computer - it was saying it couldn't find the windows/system directory on startup. I couldn't recover it with the XP installation disc, so I've reinstalled XP onto the slave drive and made the slave the primary drive.

Now it's running again, when I try to access the old main drive, it seems to think it needs to be formatted.
Are there any hdd recovery tools I can use to see what's happened to the hdd, and hopefully recover a couple of folders of photos?

The drive is a Samsung and it's only a couple of years old.

Thanks

mike1210

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

mike1210

http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/filerecovery.html

mike1210

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

had great success with this over the years but not free

StickyMicky

Is it no good with a Linux livedisc ?

Skoobie Dhu

iTrader: (3)

Thanks for the links - I'll bookmark them for later.

Errr, I've sorted it - got the jumpers mixed up on the discs

Now that I've backed up my files off the problem drive, time to see if I can sort XP on this drive or if it's another fresh install.

Is there anyway to rollback the corrupted version of XP somehow without going through windows itself?