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Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]
In recovering from a motherboard failure on a win98se machine, I put the
computer's Caviar WD1000 driver into a usb box, confirmed that all of
the files and data were intact...
....then, my stupidity gene took over.
Instead of immediately running a full backup of the drive via the usb
box (I thought I was fairly recent with respect to backing up) I made
the mistake of putting the drive into a new machine an booting from it.
The system booted, but during the Windows 98 new hardware discovery
process, windows reported a drive problem and I let it proceed to "fix
it" until windows responded "it couldn't."
Put the disk back in the usb box and it then reported that the file
system as "RAW" and empty.
I suspect that this is the result of Western Digital's "EZ-Bios"
partitioning approach to overcoming Win98's drive size limit, but,
searches have turned up nothing other than "third party data recovery
services" to deal with it.
The original setup references WD "Data Lifeguard Tools" which I
installed to look via the usb box with no joy... if I ran a "data
lifeguard" backup after the original install, I can't find it.
The drive appears to be functional, and, as time moves on and I realize
it contained a number of unbacked up items which would be nice (but not
life critical) to recover, I'm trying to find if there are any tools to
investigate what's there before I go the costly data recovery route.
Any thoughts, suggestions as well as good data recovery service
experiences would be appreciated.
Beverly Howard
computer's Caviar WD1000 driver into a usb box, confirmed that all of
the files and data were intact...
....then, my stupidity gene took over.
Instead of immediately running a full backup of the drive via the usb
box (I thought I was fairly recent with respect to backing up) I made
the mistake of putting the drive into a new machine an booting from it.
The system booted, but during the Windows 98 new hardware discovery
process, windows reported a drive problem and I let it proceed to "fix
it" until windows responded "it couldn't."
Put the disk back in the usb box and it then reported that the file
system as "RAW" and empty.
I suspect that this is the result of Western Digital's "EZ-Bios"
partitioning approach to overcoming Win98's drive size limit, but,
searches have turned up nothing other than "third party data recovery
services" to deal with it.
The original setup references WD "Data Lifeguard Tools" which I
installed to look via the usb box with no joy... if I ran a "data
lifeguard" backup after the original install, I can't find it.
The drive appears to be functional, and, as time moves on and I realize
it contained a number of unbacked up items which would be nice (but not
life critical) to recover, I'm trying to find if there are any tools to
investigate what's there before I go the costly data recovery route.
Any thoughts, suggestions as well as good data recovery service
experiences would be appreciated.
Beverly Howard