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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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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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