Things are
finally back on track.
Had to bring my hard drives to my Father's computer.
Hook up each drive one at a time as a secondary drive.
Then run chkdsk /f on each partition.
Then I ran Diskeeper's boot time defrag.
Then I ran Partition Magic to check for errors and the error was gone. All good.
Then I went into Partition magic and converted the NTFS partitions to FAT32.
I was able to click around my data when they were in my Father's system. It's all OK.
Drives are back in my system and Partition Magic is doing a few things. I'm putting the OS on the newer 120GB drive now and hooked up my 60GB drive as the secondary.
Now when Partition Magic is done doing it's magic (it's awesome btw- used it since v2 and never had an issue) I can actually start on my complete system reinstall.
At least I still have my system and programs partitions - should be able to import a lot of settings to the new install.
|drunk|
BTW, I came across the most amazing CD for you Wintel PC owners. I was lookin' to get a bootable Partition Magic CD...and in my search I came across a mention of a bootable CDROM that is a
GODSEND if you system crashes:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...oot+cd&spell=1
It is a bootable CDROM with a menu to all sorts of proggies that will load to a RAMDISK. It's Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry sweet.
BTW, if I never had Partition Magic, I'd have
no clue what the problem was.
In a way- it's good to give the system an enema every couple years I suppose.
