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    e1705 HDD gone wrong, REALLY WRONG!!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by cyberscout, Jul 28, 2008.

  1. cyberscout

    cyberscout Newbie

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    I successfully upgraded my RAM to 2GB so I thought I'd tackle the HDD next. I have on every computer I've owned previously. Ibought a WD Scopio 250Gb unit. (WD2500BEVS) I installed it in an enclosure and used a boot cd to transfer "everything" to a partition of the same size on the new drive. It worked like a charm! I even moved some lare folders (video and pictures) to seperate partitions for just that type of file. Everything went swimmingly! I rebooted to confirm the transfers and when satisfied I swapped the drives. After a really slow boot, I got an XP install problem. Halfway expecting such a problem, I whipped out my XP install CD (not MCE, b/c I received no disks with mine,) and started a reinstall and changed it to a repair. All went fine until I was able to get it to boot. Now I have a HDD the size of the original and it seems I've lost all my data. What can I do to correctly size the HDD and possibly recover some data? It seems the BIOS (A9?) locks the HDD on boot so I can't tell it the correct geometry. This is all I can think to say now. Thanks for any help!

    PS I have read all that I can on this site and others includin this thread:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/archive/index.php/t-176163.html

    Ihave been up all night and just can't make sense of it.
     
    cyberscout, Jul 28, 2008
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  2. paper_wastage

    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    right now.... DON'T touch the hard drive at all....

    either a) the OS installtion overwrote the partition
    b) the partition table got corrupt/overwrtiten, ur old partition couldn't be found, but that wont explain why the HDD is size of original
    c) ....

    solution
    a) stop booting into that hard drive... buy a new internal drive, install an OS, plug in the 'lost' HDD, then run a recovery program, might still be able to read ur files n recover(well, at least some of ur files)
     
    paper_wastage, Jul 28, 2008
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