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| | I recently uninstalled DAP ( download accelerator plus ), it told me to restart my computer, so I did. I restart, I get the missing hal.dll error...so like the problems I had before, I tried FIXMBR,FIXBOOT and bootcfg rebuild, on the boot rebuild, it said it cannot scan the disks because of a corrupt file system. I then realized that I should try to do a Repair install using the windows xp home editin sp2 cd. I get to where you have to press R to repair an existing windows installation, but I do not get the R option and it's showing the partition that has my data on labeled as ( Unknown )..so I had to quit. I really need help with this, because I do not want to lose my data I have on the HD. Thanks. |
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| | I done the entire slave drive thing right before I got on another computer and checked for your reply. I set the jumpers on my hard drive which were no jumpers on any of the pins as the cover of the HD indicated for the drive to be considered a slave. I inserted the drive into a second computer inside an extra bay..I locked it down, and I set the master and slave IDE cable in the right places on both HD drives..but I had 3 spare power cables from the power supply..but none would reach the bottom damaged hard drive. I unplugged the cdrom, and cd burner power cables to give me some slack so I could reach the hd with the power cable? Is that safe?, or will it damage anything?? I then booted up, I set the drives in BIOS as PATA Primary Master - the other pc's hd and PATA Primary Slave to the damaged harddrive...But for some reason, everytime I tick F10 to save an exit, it won't get passed the host pc's gateway's boot up screen...so I have to hit f2 or f10 which is boot menu and bios settings. What have I done wrong??? |
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| Fit the drive back into the original pc and follow the instructions to perform a Parallel Install.
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| | Okay, will I lose any of my data I have on the corrupted hard drive?? And how would I recover it into the new parellel installation?? P.S - I finally got the host computer to boot to xp, everything is running fine. I now try to copy files from the damaged hd to the host hd but it says the disk is drive e is not formatted..I don't want to format it..because I have alot of data I want to save off of it! |
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| Well, I've decided I'll just get a new hard drive.
Will my hp pavilion a705w support the 320 gb seagate ide ? and does it have 48 bit logical block addressing support? |
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