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Old July 23rd 04, 06:44 PM
Peter Poulimenakos
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Default Unable to boot to Win 98SE or see D, E and F partitions

How about taking the HD out and installing it in another
computer running Windows 9x/Me/XP/2K. You should then be
able to read the drives contents.


-----Original Message-----
Hi;

My Dell computer with a 120 gb hard drive running Win

98SE has serious
problems. This seemed to have started when I tried to

upgrade
Partition Magic 5 to Ver. 8. A main reason for the

upgrade was that I
could no longer see the partition info although all 4

partitions were
running OK. Obviously I should have stopped there.

After installing PM8, everything seemed OK for a day or

so. Then I
found I could not read D, E or F from Windows or even

see them. I
called Symantec who now own Powerquest for paid

support. They
instructed me to use Norton Disk Doctor and make the

back-up disks for
the program to try to restore the partitions and the

file system in
Windows. In the process of doing so, I received the

following error
message "Cannot find/see vmm32.vxd" -- "Do you want to

fix this". I
foolishly said yes and the computer rebooted. With the

reboot, I
totally lost Windows and can see my C Drive only under

DOS. There is
nothing mechanically wrong with the hard drive but I

cannot boot to
Windows at all. I can boot to DOS using the Win 98SE

Boot Disk.

Although I would ideally like to get everything back, my

primary
concern are Word, WordPerfect. TXT and PDF document

files on the D
partition -- less than 3 Gb worth and 15+ Gb of JPEG

files on F taken
with a professional digital camera.

Are there any suggestions short of seeking out companies

which
specialize in data recovery which I know will be

expensive?

Thanks in advance.

E. Novak
.

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Old July 31st 04, 06:43 AM
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Default Unable to boot to Win 98SE or see D, E and F partitions

HDs are cheaper than COMPUTERS or OS.





"Peter Poulimenakos" wrote in message
...
How about taking the HD out and installing it in another
computer running Windows 9x/Me/XP/2K. You should then be
able to read the drives contents.


-----Original Message-----
Hi;

My Dell computer with a 120 gb hard drive running Win

98SE has serious
problems. This seemed to have started when I tried to

upgrade
Partition Magic 5 to Ver. 8. A main reason for the

upgrade was that I
could no longer see the partition info although all 4

partitions were
running OK. Obviously I should have stopped there.

After installing PM8, everything seemed OK for a day or

so. Then I
found I could not read D, E or F from Windows or even

see them. I
called Symantec who now own Powerquest for paid

support. They
instructed me to use Norton Disk Doctor and make the

back-up disks for
the program to try to restore the partitions and the

file system in
Windows. In the process of doing so, I received the

following error
message "Cannot find/see vmm32.vxd" -- "Do you want to

fix this". I
foolishly said yes and the computer rebooted. With the

reboot, I
totally lost Windows and can see my C Drive only under

DOS. There is
nothing mechanically wrong with the hard drive but I

cannot boot to
Windows at all. I can boot to DOS using the Win 98SE

Boot Disk.

Although I would ideally like to get everything back, my

primary
concern are Word, WordPerfect. TXT and PDF document

files on the D
partition -- less than 3 Gb worth and 15+ Gb of JPEG

files on F taken
with a professional digital camera.

Are there any suggestions short of seeking out companies

which
specialize in data recovery which I know will be

expensive?

Thanks in advance.

E. Novak
.


 




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