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  • Ghost Partition Size & Windows 98 SE

    I have a bit of strange thing going on, and I wonder if any of you have any input to my problem, or why they are occuring. We are using a version of Ghost (that came with the Motherboards), DOS based, and this is what I am doing: 1) I created a W98SE boot disk, and put format & fdisk from the W98...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 02-20-2010

  • What causes a partition table to become corrupt?

    Our Dell server suddenly has a corrupt partition table and isn't booting correctly. The Dell rep said it could be from our server room overheating two weeks ago and the system rebooting. My boss does not think this is possible and I haven't been able to find a list of reasons why a table would...
    Posted to Disaster Recovery (Forum) by hardware on 12-25-2009

  • Hard drive partition is showing as RAW and asks to format when trying to view the contence

    I have a machine that wont boot into Windows. The PC just says there is nothing to boot from. If you put the hard drive into another computer it does come up in Windows as the E: drive but there is no information show in regard to size or space and when you double click the drive the following error...
    Posted to Hard Drives (Forum) by hardware on 11-27-2009

  • Restore MBR on drive with Vista

    Hi, I'm trying to fix a desktop PC running Windows Vista Professional. Upon restart following a power failure the machine failed to boot, it gave a Windows system error stating the operating system was corrupt. After a subsequent boot attempt the machine acted as if there was no operating system...
    Posted to Disaster Recovery (Forum) by hardware on 10-09-2009

  • how to recover missing hard disk partition (missing part of hard disk)

    i use pc with WINDOWS ME operating sys. the hard disk of 20G size. i had partioned as 2G and 18G with operating system installed on the 2G part. on day i found my pc like it hase been formatted and totally empty with out me doing any thing to formate it. any way after i checked the pc to reinstal the...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 10-06-2009

  • WD80gb portable HD-  I accidentally deleted partition but did not format.  Can I still pull the data off the drive?

    I have a portable hd WD800u017 that during an XP install on a machine i forgot to unplug the HD and accidentally deleted the partition. The drive shows up under disk manager as unallocated however under properties windows knows what type of device it is. What are my options or should I just blow the...
    Posted to Hard Drives (Forum) by hardware on 09-25-2009

  • How to copy the whole content of an installation of Windows copying file by file.

    Hello, I'm trying to copy the whole content of an installation of Windows 7 using Total Commander (running by using the original DVD of Windows 7 in recovery mode),but I see that some files are missing. Can you suggest a tool to copy everything ? I can't make an image of the disk in "raw"...
    Posted to Backup / Restore (Forum) by hardware on 09-15-2009

  • boot partition

    I tried to instal w2k on my new MSI MS-6533E mobo and got the msg: "Couldn't open the boot partition to check for a signature". The instal can continue but ended up not being able to boot up. I have tried to fdisk/mbr successfully but it hasn't solved the problem. The harddisk has been...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 08-12-2009

  • How to switch primary partitions?

    Hi experts, I have a computer with a C: of 2GB with WinXP sat up on it, and a D: with the rest of the HDD, but whenever I install a new program or similar I store things on the C: partition. Is it possible to make the D: the primary partition and how would I do that? Regards, eX.
    Posted to Hard Drives (Forum) by hardware on 07-18-2009

  • Compaq Presario recovery partition

    Computer is a Compaq presario running XP with two sata drives the first has a recovery partition ad a c:drive the second has a d:drive, the user has not retained any of his original setup or recovery disks. And the c:drive that had windows on is bladdered , to the point where the only option was to use...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 07-02-2009
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