Can't get into storage hard drives?

[CraigHappy]

Hi again guys

I did a silly thing today and left my storage drives connected when installing windows 98 onto another drive. I have 3 drives in total, one for dual platform with win98 and xp and the other two for backup storage, during the initial setup of win 98 it asked if I wanted to configure the drives, or something like that anyway, I said yes! Doh!

Now I can't get into the extra drives?

Windows XP see them in Computer Manager, but only one shows in My Computer, but when you double click it says format drive.

Is there anyway to get to the data stored on these two drives?

Here's a screen dump of the drives from Computer Manager -

http://www.websamba.com/selfcatering/screen-dump.jpg

Cheers, Craig.

 

[rvnguy]

Try theselinks from linney)

Data recovery.

PC Inspector

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

http://www.restorer2000.com

http://www.runtime.org/hints.htm

Plenty of other recovery software listed here.

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Disk_Management/Error_Checking_and_Repair/

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[Freestone]

Do you by any chance run a program called GoBack in the Windows 98 environment? If so, boot back into Windows 98 and remove it, or add it to the XP environment.

 

[CraigHappy]

Thanks for the links, I'm working my way through, some seem better than others!

I think what has happened is I've deleted the partition information on the two backup drives. As I have been trying some of the recovery software and it was able to retrieve files from one of the drives. but it was only a trial software and it was pretty expensive, the trial version only lets you get one file a day!

If they is another cheap or free software out there that will undelete partitions that would be good, but if all else fails I may end up having to either scrap the data or pay for the expensive software.

Cheers again, Craig.

 

[rvnguy]

It is not cheap, but how important is the data??

Sometimes the data is so important that cost becomes not an issue.

But as HD's have become really cheap, there is little reason not to buy and use for a clone backup.

Point, please start making backups on a scehdule.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all