hey guys, i dont know waht has happened here, but the story goes like this:
i tried to add some ram to my PC, in the process i must have knocked the CMOS battery or something to cause the CMOS to default back to its origanal settings, when i booted my computer i got a “CMOS checksum error – loading defaults” “press F1 to continue”
when i did that i attemted to boot windows but came back saying “boot disk fail, insert a bootdisk to continue”
so i put in my windows XP disk and took a look, it told me that i had 2 drives C: and D: both of 133000Meg, instead of my 3 drives: C: which is 100gig, D: which is 400gig (C+D are one physical 500gig drive partitioned wiht windows XP installed to drive C:) and H: whcih is 1T, in my frustration in thinking i had lost all my data i walked off to find a solution on my laptop, which is what i am currently on, in the process my wife (who has no ideas about computers but is full of good intentions) attemted to fix it for me by attempting to install windows XP on one of the unkown partitioned drives that came up…
i dont know what she did, but i unplugged the 1T drive and started the machine up, because she didnt know which drive she formatted and i attemted to make it easier for me to fix, when starting up my computer to boot from the windows XP disk it booted straight into windows, and works, it still has both of my origanal partitions on it(C: 100g and D:400g).
i shut down my computer, plugged into the 1T drive and booted the machine, it boots to windows, the 1T doesnt come up under ‘My computer’, but does apear in ‘device manager’
now here is when it gets really spooky…. i go to ‘computer management’ and under ‘drive management’ i find my 1T drive…. EXCEPT now it is convinced that it is a 1499.46gig drive with 4 partitions on it, 104.01GB unallocated, 811.57GB healthy (unkown partition), 259.39GB healthy (unknown partition), 324.49GB unallcoated….
anyone know what the heck has happened here? and is there any hope for getting my data back after all this?
