i’ll try to be blunt and to the point, while providing relevant information… so here goes..
Computer…p4 1.8 mhz processor
Initial OS…Win98 se…upgraded to Win XP Pro
(i know…not a good idea)
Had problem with windows installer starting when i started a couple of programs..
So, in a blind attempt to fix it..i purchased and installed Fix-It Utilities Professional..V6
Of course,,,i went to far with cleaning the registry….Now the harddrive will not Boot.(already tried fixit recovery…it when so far and flipped out).
Then…tried recovery console….i did fixboot, and chkdsk….still afraid to try mbrfix…lol..(have much data i do NOT want to lose)…although that may be what it takes?
Anyway, i installed another harddrive…installed Win98 se and upgraded to XP just like the other harddrive. Hooked the other hd up as a primary slave…..
BIOS reads the slave as 80GB drive…which it is.
However, when in win explorer…it only shows the slave as a 10MB drive…I think Chkdsk may have something to do with this….it wrote like 200 files to it when i ran it.
I also ran SpinRite v6 on it…it couldn’t read anything past the 10mb.
So, then i ran Maxtor Utility disk on it and got the following readings:
Note: i should also inform you that suddenly the file system is read as FAT12….it was formatted/created as a FAT32 with WIN98se.
Back to Maxtor Utilities info:
BIOS Extension Support…….Failed
Partition Information……..Read Fail
Soft reset test…………..Passed
Drive recall test…………Failed
error code….UKOEO2
I’ve gone through all the startup options:
get the NTLRD missing message,
the hal.dll message,
and the
I have alot of data on this drive that i definitely need to get access to.
If anyone on here can figure this one out….my hat is definitely off to you.
thanks, any advice will be very much appreciated
