CPU/Mobo [Help] Onboard audio bust - No audio device Asus A8NE
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The Sauron
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Kneo said:The software's website does mention all these OS. I am just trying to understand whether the free version would have the options of recovery. Unfortunately, it does not
In India 96% people are using pirated windows and softwares
Which is shame for us
When I try and boot from a bootable XP cd, I get to see a FAT partition of approximate 134xxx Mb. I have a SATA HDD of 160 GB.
I have not yet deleted this partition in the hope that I may still be able to figure out how to recover my original 4 partitions. Keep the suggestion flowing guys.
@virus32win: Thanks mate for everything.
I have not yet deleted this partition in the hope that I may still be able to figure out how to recover my original 4 partitions. Keep the suggestion flowing guys.
@virus32win: Thanks mate for everything.
U do all that everyone here is suggesting and also get rid of the notion that a Linux Live CD is going 2 mess up ur partitions. Not possible.
Since nobody here can vouch or verify 100% what the exact cause of the problem u have, a re-install is always good for trouble shooting.
Also, after all ur data is backed up, do a scan of ur HDD for bad sectors. The data corruption might be a pointer to any of ur components failing.
Edit: Since u're solo, all I can suggest is a Live CD (XP or Linux) with data recovery software to recover ur data.
Since nobody here can vouch or verify 100% what the exact cause of the problem u have, a re-install is always good for trouble shooting.
Also, after all ur data is backed up, do a scan of ur HDD for bad sectors. The data corruption might be a pointer to any of ur components failing.
Edit: Since u're solo, all I can suggest is a Live CD (XP or Linux) with data recovery software to recover ur data.
Yes, I agree.
I am not complaining that the Linux Live CD has messed up the partitions, but the sequence of events does suggest that something went wrong because of that (it was an old Linspire Live CD)
Basically, I tried booting using that - it gave the usual screen which had a lot of text - the way Linux boots up and it checked all ports and then when it had to initialize the display - it was not able to (maybe it did not recognize my PCIe card). Now it may have created a boot partition or something but then when I tried booting in my regular windows the screen froze (cursor blinking) before it shows the 'Resuming Windows' prompt.
So i tried booting from bootable XP CD and then saw that there was a single unrecognized (not even FAT32 as i had earlier) partition instead of the 4 partitions that I had and in the recovery console there is only c: with no files, not even Windows folder)
So apparantly the partition table is overwritten and now I am in this soup. Linux is a very capable OS and I am not bad-mouthing it at all. Maybe I am not a Linux savvy user anymore.
I am not complaining that the Linux Live CD has messed up the partitions, but the sequence of events does suggest that something went wrong because of that (it was an old Linspire Live CD)
Basically, I tried booting using that - it gave the usual screen which had a lot of text - the way Linux boots up and it checked all ports and then when it had to initialize the display - it was not able to (maybe it did not recognize my PCIe card). Now it may have created a boot partition or something but then when I tried booting in my regular windows the screen froze (cursor blinking) before it shows the 'Resuming Windows' prompt.
So i tried booting from bootable XP CD and then saw that there was a single unrecognized (not even FAT32 as i had earlier) partition instead of the 4 partitions that I had and in the recovery console there is only c: with no files, not even Windows folder)
So apparantly the partition table is overwritten and now I am in this soup. Linux is a very capable OS and I am not bad-mouthing it at all. Maybe I am not a Linux savvy user anymore.
The Sauron
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Your all 4 partitions are 100% curable if you can attach hard drive to another system and rebuild partition table in PTD software.
You should have access to other system otherwise you can make use of Hiren's BootCD for recovering partitions.This CD contains many tools.
If you can risk data then create first partition of 20GB with windows installation leaving other space untouched.Then use Partition Table doctor and other recovery tools.If your sound problem still continue then i have spare PCI sound card.
You should have access to other system otherwise you can make use of Hiren's BootCD for recovering partitions.This CD contains many tools.
If you can risk data then create first partition of 20GB with windows installation leaving other space untouched.Then use Partition Table doctor and other recovery tools.If your sound problem still continue then i have spare PCI sound card.
The Sauron
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The Sauron
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Kneo said:
what have you found on searching and rebuilding partitions like i have described in pictures of#36 ?This should be something like that in picture below i have tested in my machine after complete search there will be lots of partitions you need to pick only recent of known size.
Better try attaching disk to another system then rebuild from PTD.
Heres what happened
I tried running Active@Partition recovery software from a bootable and it detects all the partitions. But after saving the info to the HDD when I try to boot from the HDD - it shows, 'Error loading operating system'
Also, when i try to install XP through a bootable CD, the step which shows the partitions - only a single partition of 'Unknown' is shown of 131072 MB (approx 127 GB). The surprising part is that my HDD is 320 Gb SATA. This is recognized by the Active partition recovery but not XP.
Any ideas?
I tried running Active@Partition recovery software from a bootable and it detects all the partitions. But after saving the info to the HDD when I try to boot from the HDD - it shows, 'Error loading operating system'
Also, when i try to install XP through a bootable CD, the step which shows the partitions - only a single partition of 'Unknown' is shown of 131072 MB (approx 127 GB). The surprising part is that my HDD is 320 Gb SATA. This is recognized by the Active partition recovery but not XP.
Any ideas?
UPDATE:
After a lot of hassles and help from the TE members (especially virus32win), I've managed to recover all my data (although in a very lame and safe way)
As the thread says, my onboard audio had busted (it is still not working), I had tried a live CD (a very old DIGIT Linspire bootable CD) to boot and check the hardware. This was done to eliminate any XP software/driver problems. Somehow it didn't go all the way and showed me the display when I booted in linux. Being a person for whom linux is still a little bit of Greek & Latin, I did not try and pursue that problem and thought about going back to my XP (installed on 320 GB Sata with 4 partitions).
Surprisingly, the disk did not now boot into XP at all. It seems that the MBR was modded when I tried the bootable DIGIT cd and hence it did not go back into XP. Now I thought that I may have to repair the bootsector so I tried booting using a XP installable and doing a fixboot, etc. But it did not help. Also, in XP i was not able to run a repair boot as it showed only a single unrecognized partition of 120 Gb instead of 4 NTFS partitions.
I had no clue what to do. Then virus32win recommeded running a few softwares. Finally I googled for a software called Active@partition recovery which allows you to make a bootable and recover your partitions. I tried that and it recognized all my partitions but despite all this the OS was not able to boot neither was I able to install XP on my first partition (to save the data in the other partitions) from a bootable CD.
Then I finally decided to buy another HDD and install XP on that one and then recover partitions on this disk. Amazingly, after going through all this, I thought that I had an old XP installable, which does not recognize HDDs of large size (can someone confirm that this is a fact?). When I tried a new XP trial edition, it did recognize all the partitions at boot time itself (when it asks for installing XP on a particular partition).
Finally, managed to install XP on the new HDD and connected the original HDD as an additional disk. Now I have all my data back on the original disk and am in the process of setting up my freshly installed XP.
After a lot of hassles and help from the TE members (especially virus32win), I've managed to recover all my data (although in a very lame and safe way)
As the thread says, my onboard audio had busted (it is still not working), I had tried a live CD (a very old DIGIT Linspire bootable CD) to boot and check the hardware. This was done to eliminate any XP software/driver problems. Somehow it didn't go all the way and showed me the display when I booted in linux. Being a person for whom linux is still a little bit of Greek & Latin, I did not try and pursue that problem and thought about going back to my XP (installed on 320 GB Sata with 4 partitions).
Surprisingly, the disk did not now boot into XP at all. It seems that the MBR was modded when I tried the bootable DIGIT cd and hence it did not go back into XP. Now I thought that I may have to repair the bootsector so I tried booting using a XP installable and doing a fixboot, etc. But it did not help. Also, in XP i was not able to run a repair boot as it showed only a single unrecognized partition of 120 Gb instead of 4 NTFS partitions.
I had no clue what to do. Then virus32win recommeded running a few softwares. Finally I googled for a software called Active@partition recovery which allows you to make a bootable and recover your partitions. I tried that and it recognized all my partitions but despite all this the OS was not able to boot neither was I able to install XP on my first partition (to save the data in the other partitions) from a bootable CD.
Then I finally decided to buy another HDD and install XP on that one and then recover partitions on this disk. Amazingly, after going through all this, I thought that I had an old XP installable, which does not recognize HDDs of large size (can someone confirm that this is a fact?). When I tried a new XP trial edition, it did recognize all the partitions at boot time itself (when it asks for installing XP on a particular partition).
Finally, managed to install XP on the new HDD and connected the original HDD as an additional disk. Now I have all my data back on the original disk and am in the process of setting up my freshly installed XP.
The Sauron
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Glad to hear my help worked.So your original sound problem still exists..Get PCI sound card from local at 150-200 range.I have one spare old PCI card also..
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