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Old July 26th 05, 07:48 PM
intoeverything90
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Default Hard Drive Deintialized

Two months ago, my hard drive on my windows 98se computer deintialized
following after when the pc power on/off button was pressed twice. I tried
using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only option is
to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files and data
that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering if
there was a way to restart my hard drive and repair the corrupted files on it
without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need to buy a
Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that.
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Old July 26th 05, 07:53 PM
jkb
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Did the hard drive just not start up?


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Old July 26th 05, 08:44 PM
Gary S. Terhune
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How big is your hard drive? Do you remember, or can you repeat, the
error? Details of such errors can go a long way towards diagnosing them.

How big is your hard drive, and do you recall how much free space it
has?

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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"intoeverything90" wrote in
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Two months ago, my hard drive on my windows 98se computer deintialized
following after when the pc power on/off button was pressed twice. I
tried
using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only
option is
to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files
and data
that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering
if
there was a way to restart my hard drive and repair the corrupted
files on it
without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need
to buy a
Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that.


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Old July 26th 05, 11:21 PM
Don Phillipson
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"intoeverything90" wrote in
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Two months ago, my hard drive on my windows 98se computer deintialized
following after when the pc power on/off button was pressed twice. I tried
using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only option

is
to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files and

data
that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering if
there was a way to restart my hard drive and repair the corrupted files on

it
without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need to

buy a
Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that.


After this sort of failure, any operation on a single
hard drive may do more harm than good. The safest
course is to instal a new hard drive as C:, instal
Win98SE to the new C:, add the old drive (which
becomes D and then copy over essential data
and config. files. You may also get special
diagnostics from the drive manufacturer that
may tell you if the drive can be repaired.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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Old July 28th 05, 09:03 AM
Ben Myers
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Please repost with more information, including the error messages you
receive when trying to access the drive.

Ben

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following after when the pc power on/off button was pressed twice. I =

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using the recovery disks that came with the computer, but the only =

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to do a format, which I do not want as I wish to keep all the files =

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that I created on my computer saved on the hard drive. I was wondering =

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there was a way to restart my hard drive and repair the corrupted =

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without losing the data on the hard drive. If this means that I need =

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Windows 98se cd-rom to perform repair, I am willing to do that.

 




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