Error performing inpage opperation????
I have a hard drive from a friends pc. I removed it from the case and installedit into an external hard drive case. First the green indicator light alternates from green to red. When, in WINDOWS EXPLORER, I click the drive, the light goes from green to red and gives the above message "E:\ is not accesable, error performing inpage opperation". I can see the drive listed in windows explorer and MY computer. I also see it listed in Disk Management. there I see the drive split into 3 partitions. One is the E drive or system drive. Then there is the HP_RECOVERY partition. the 3rd was an un activated 10 gig that I was able to format it and store jpg's on that partition. So it must be working somewhat. I cannot gain access to the E partition where some important info is located. Any ideas?
Hard drive has XP Home on E partition, the laptop I'm using to acess it is running XP Pro and never had a problem looking at drives with lesser Os's on them via the external drive case.
Thanks Bruce
Hard drive has XP Home on E partition, the laptop I'm using to acess it is running XP Pro and never had a problem looking at drives with lesser Os's on them via the external drive case.
Thanks Bruce
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Also Try putting the external HD before you open the pc. Sometimes windows get confused.
You can also check if the hd is proberly connected on the external case and is not set to cable. (at the back of the HD there must be 3 set of 2 pinds. One is for master, one is for slave and one is for cable).
Further more I'd suggest leaving it exposed to as much air as possible to try and keep it cool. I'd even suggest putting a bag of frozen vegies on it to keep it as cold as possible. Cold drives mean less data degradation which means better chance of getting a good read.
To ghost the drive you need to get norton ghost just the basic version preferable the run off a floppy one. Then you simply boot up a machine from the floppy with both drives the source and destination and you ghost the source drive to the destination. This will go through at a lower level then the file level and make nearly an exact duplicate of the source drive to the destination (over writing anything on the destination). The good thing about this is that Ghost will do some data correction if the bits are unavailable so files that may not have been readable before can become readable afterwards, though they may be missing little pieces. It really just depends on the nature of the damage on the source drive.
HP has avaiable a RESCUE DISK SET. A set of floppies to boot up the machine and reprogram from the HP_RESTORE partition. I'm determined to try see whats wrong with this drive and recover the data needed without going the data recivery services route$$$$$
ALSO. Recall when I said in WinXP Disk Manager I can see the 3 partitions? All 3 said healthy. Where 2 of the partitions said (ACTIVE), the 3rd HP_RECOVERY partition is labled (EISA) or something like that. Any way to get at that info or keep/burn the original WinXP Home to give back to them?
If you do a repair install it'll actually force you to register the cd key so it won't conflict with whatever was on there before it'll just over right it, but that'd waste the cd. If you have the original KEY and your versions match then you can put in the original CD key and you are good to go.
So if all 3 are healthy if you boot up with that drive as a secondary drive in another system can you read it? If so copying files is as simple as drag and drop. There is no real way to extract xp out of the system sot hey can re-use it. Best you'd be able to do is backup their data files and do a clean install.
BRUCE