hi,
i hope i am posting in the correct section, if not i request the mods to do the needfull.
the isue is as such:
on thursday afternoon, i decided to format my 40gb primary master hdd which is into 2 partition c and d. the reason for formatting was, that the accountant working for me wassnt too familier with windows xp and he wanted to me to install windows 2000.
so, as usual, i inserted the win2k cd and started formatting the hdd, partition c which had xp. upon running setup, i found that i could use the NTFS file system, the existing one, to install windows 2000, so i carried on formatting and installing win2k.
win2k, installed without any issues and then i started installing hardware drivers, etc and all was fine. i then started installing all my softwares from the e drive which is ai primary slave 160gb hdd. i installed everythign and updated windows. then i installed norton systemworks premiere 2006 and in that i also installed norton goback, by mistake. after install was done, system rebooted and upon reboot, the post bios screen showed me an error saying, norton goback has found bad sectors on disk#2 and hence it cannot continue with such bad sectors and hence it will try and remove tiself from that drive, where ti also uninstalled and system booted and started again and without error proceeded to win2k. i was at that time live-updating norton and did not realise that my drive e, primary slave 160gb from the 1 i installed everything wassnt beeing shown in my computer.
i finished installing updates for norton and started installing winxpsp2 in drive d the other partition. xp installed fine and then when i was about to install stuff to drive d the xp partition, i found that i wassnt able to acess drive e anymore.
i then rebooted and chkd the BIOS and the hdd was getting detected there, so i proceeded towares xp and there i checked in drive management, where i was able to see the hdd, without any drive letter, jus like a brand new unformatted hdd, so i downloaded recover my files and started recovering all the data frm that hdd. i recovered all 95gb of data and backed up and then downloaded a software called partitiontable doctor ver 3.
this software, found bad sectors on my primary master hdd drive c, where i had finally formatted and installed xp back and formatted d to blank as it was b4 on that day.
now, i was able to recover the MBR and the MFT for the drive e which was primary slave and also all data was intact.
i am posting the entire story coz, i wanna try understand what went wrong that day. u guys for sure know mw write at techtree as well as an expert and mod.
please i need some serious understanding and no spamming, any 1 with an explamation welcome to reply.
i hope some1 here has some explamation..
i hope i am posting in the correct section, if not i request the mods to do the needfull.
the isue is as such:
on thursday afternoon, i decided to format my 40gb primary master hdd which is into 2 partition c and d. the reason for formatting was, that the accountant working for me wassnt too familier with windows xp and he wanted to me to install windows 2000.
so, as usual, i inserted the win2k cd and started formatting the hdd, partition c which had xp. upon running setup, i found that i could use the NTFS file system, the existing one, to install windows 2000, so i carried on formatting and installing win2k.
win2k, installed without any issues and then i started installing hardware drivers, etc and all was fine. i then started installing all my softwares from the e drive which is ai primary slave 160gb hdd. i installed everythign and updated windows. then i installed norton systemworks premiere 2006 and in that i also installed norton goback, by mistake. after install was done, system rebooted and upon reboot, the post bios screen showed me an error saying, norton goback has found bad sectors on disk#2 and hence it cannot continue with such bad sectors and hence it will try and remove tiself from that drive, where ti also uninstalled and system booted and started again and without error proceeded to win2k. i was at that time live-updating norton and did not realise that my drive e, primary slave 160gb from the 1 i installed everything wassnt beeing shown in my computer.
i finished installing updates for norton and started installing winxpsp2 in drive d the other partition. xp installed fine and then when i was about to install stuff to drive d the xp partition, i found that i wassnt able to acess drive e anymore.
i then rebooted and chkd the BIOS and the hdd was getting detected there, so i proceeded towares xp and there i checked in drive management, where i was able to see the hdd, without any drive letter, jus like a brand new unformatted hdd, so i downloaded recover my files and started recovering all the data frm that hdd. i recovered all 95gb of data and backed up and then downloaded a software called partitiontable doctor ver 3.
this software, found bad sectors on my primary master hdd drive c, where i had finally formatted and installed xp back and formatted d to blank as it was b4 on that day.
now, i was able to recover the MBR and the MFT for the drive e which was primary slave and also all data was intact.
i am posting the entire story coz, i wanna try understand what went wrong that day. u guys for sure know mw write at techtree as well as an expert and mod.
please i need some serious understanding and no spamming, any 1 with an explamation welcome to reply.
i hope some1 here has some explamation..