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ooer - it's gone quiet, are you still there Kronas? - it seems weird that you have a working system with only 'some' files missing? - were you sharing any folders when it happened?

- and my sympathy, :hugs: :pp .I know how I felt when a recent power supply failure wiped out everything except the graphics card & cd/dvd drives on my pc - I had backed up a lot of it, but, inevitably, it is the newer stuff that is the most precious :(

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it died completely last night.............. just getting everything set up norton drivers etc :sulk: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

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Did you get your files back??
If you didn't and the drive is not being used at the moment PM me and I may be able to help you get them back ;)

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you should have told me earlier :( i sent it back to the manafacturer, they just shipped my replacement drive today.

edit: while im here, when i get the new drive im going to use norton ghost to clone my existing drive to the new one, but how do i format the secondary drive so i can use it ?

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Do you have an OS installed on an existing drive that you can boot into? If so just install the drive in the PC and it will show in My Computer, all you then need to do is right click on the drive from My Computer and select Format. (it will be autodetected)

Or if it will be a case of a completely new install from scratch, just boot from the CD-ROM with your XP Install disk and it will give you the option to format the disk during setup.

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cool, yes its an existing drive (the one im on posting this) :)

thanks for the info :)

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1 More thing, if your usign XP and you wish to change the drive letter that it gets assigned, then goto Administrative tools and select Computer management.

In there is an option called Disk Management, you can change the drive letter assignments, partition and format your disk from that utility if you want.

A Handy little utility to know about.

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Sorry about the delay mate, but I only got hold of something that would have got the files back today.
For future reference, if you have the problem again let me know ;)

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if my memory bank can store it i shall retain for future reference ta :erm: :D

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something I just thought of, if the HD is recognised by the bios, setting it up as a slave might get data back, even if it won't boot?

I wish I could have done that when mine failed, any pc I put that HD in, wouldn't even post :(

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well i did try it as slave but the pc would not boot, and all you heard was clicking from the drive..........

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Is that your new drive?

That SHOULD NOT happen, sounds wrong. Jez i hope you dont have anothe duff disk.

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lol no, i was refering to homealone, he suggested maybe trying his drive as slave if he could get it to work, but he didnt try it, i pointed out i have. :erm:

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sorry , didn't mean to confuse anyone - Kronas has it right :)

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I just had a few brief thoughts about the original problem, once before i had a windows profile go corrupt and cease to function, anoyingly i'd selected encrypt this account so only that account could get to its data.
In the end i just had to use the new account it created, everything in the original was lost, luckily for me that wasnt particularly much stuff as anything important is stored on a seperate hard drive to the os (os is on a raid 0 array for pure speed)

K