Help! I have completely lost two hard drives - MORE INFO

I tried one of the bad drives again (as a Primary Master boot drive),
and now I see that I have an error message:

WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE OF A COMPUTER DISK HARDWARE
CONFIGURATION PROBLEM.

I also see now that my BIOS does recognize the drive - the error
occurs subsequently when trying to boot.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

-GECKO

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I was running Vista Ultimate and tried Acronis v10 to make a clone
copy of the C: drive. The result was terrible. Both drives became
unusable. My BIOS won't even recognize the presence of either drive,
whether I mount them individually or together now. Nor can I install
XP on either drive now.

Can anyone suggest something I can try in order to make the drives
usable again? I don't care if I lose what is on them. I was just
experimenting anyway. But, I hate to lose the drives.

Thanks

-GECKO

Je zou het kunnen proberen met het gratis progje testdisk_win
Eventueel kan je nagaan of er een tijdelijk geldige downloadversie is van
PTDD PartitionTableDoctor, een programma dat mij en enkele vrienden diverse
keren heeft geholpen, o.a. bij een verkeerd uitgavallen partitionmagic
handeling. Ideaal voor o.a. masterbootrecord herstel etc
enfin, ongetwijfeld kom je er wel uit mits je gericht blijft werken dus
vooral niet in paniek gaan formatteren o.i.d.

"gecko" <alpha@olympus.net> schreef in bericht
news:tl2v545ll7np0tei0iti0h548a33r6i8bi@4ax.com...
>I tried one of the bad drives again (as a Primary Master boot drive),
> and now I see that I have an error message:
>
> WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE OF A COMPUTER DISK HARDWARE
> CONFIGURATION PROBLEM.
>
> I also see now that my BIOS does recognize the drive - the error
> occurs subsequently when trying to boot.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks
>
> -GECKO
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I was running Vista Ultimate and tried Acronis v10 to make a clone
> copy of the C: drive. The result was terrible. Both drives became
> unusable. My BIOS won't even recognize the presence of either drive,
> whether I mount them individually or together now. Nor can I install
> XP on either drive now.
>
> Can anyone suggest something I can try in order to make the drives
> usable again? I don't care if I lose what is on them. I was just
> experimenting anyway. But, I hate to lose the drives.
>
> Thanks
>
> -GECKO

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:10:49 +0200, "gigobert"
<gigobert.debruin@club-internet.fr> wrote:

>Je zou het kunnen proberen met het gratis progje testdisk_win
>Eventueel kan je nagaan of er een tijdelijk geldige downloadversie is van
>PTDD PartitionTableDoctor, een programma dat mij en enkele vrienden diverse
>keren heeft geholpen, o.a. bij een verkeerd uitgavallen partitionmagic
>handeling. Ideaal voor o.a. masterbootrecord herstel etc
>enfin, ongetwijfeld kom je er wel uit mits je gericht blijft werken dus
>vooral niet in paniek gaan formatteren o.i.d.
>

Oh to be able to read this?

Thanks

-GECKO

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:17:53 GMT, gecko <alpha@olympus.net>
wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:10:49 +0200, "gigobert"
><gigobert.debruin@club-internet.fr> wrote:
>
>>Je zou het kunnen proberen met het gratis progje testdisk_win
>>Eventueel kan je nagaan of er een tijdelijk geldige downloadversie is van
>>PTDD PartitionTableDoctor, een programma dat mij en enkele vrienden diverse
>>keren heeft geholpen, o.a. bij een verkeerd uitgavallen partitionmagic
>>handeling. Ideaal voor o.a. masterbootrecord herstel etc
>>enfin, ongetwijfeld kom je er wel uit mits je gericht blijft werken dus
>>vooral niet in paniek gaan formatteren o.i.d.
>>
>
>Oh to be able to read this?

No problem, what so ever :-)

It is in dutch. He wrote: You could try to run the free program
testdisk_win or obtain a free trial for PTDD
PartitionTableDoctor.
And that it helped him in the past ;-)

No for my own advise: if you don't care about the disks content,
just run killmbr or wipembr. (Be carefull though about which mbr
you wipe. Dafest way: only one single harddrive attached and run
the wipe program from a floppy :-)

You can use http://jawade.fortunecity.com/clrmbr.html for wiping,
but that's also in dutch :-)

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok