The setup:
My PC has 4 drives, 3 physical in all, one partitioned, the other two stand alone. The list is as follows.
1st Drive - WDC 1600 (160G Partitioned) = C: "System" drive (50G), F: "Recordings" drive (100G)
2nd Drive - Samsung (80G) = D: "Downloading" drive.
3rd drive WDC 1600 (160G, in USB 2.0 enclosure) = E: "Library" drive
The issue:
I had lost my Windows XP Pro disk, and had a little problem a while back and decided to clean up the mess and installed a legit copy XP Home. It wasn't really living up to what I needed it to do, so I took the PC to a computer store across the street to a man who installs XP Pro for $30 with antivirus, Nero and the whole nine...I can do this procedure myself but as I said I lost my disks (in a recent move)
I also needed a new case so I picked one up while I was in there, leaving the drives in the PC so he could put everything in its rightful place. (once again, something I can do myself, but this man is a professional and i had other things to do that day)
I left the PC with him, leaving instructions that the OS was to go on my C: "System" drive. Not only do I have it written to the drives so that when you open up windows install/partition menu you see what's what, I also have stickers on each drive identifying them.
Luckily I had disconnected my E:"Library" drive because not only did this man format the partitioned drive wiping everything I had stored on F: "recordings", but he also formatted the "Downloading" drive that had absolutely nothing to do with what I asked him to do in the first place. To me that's like asking someone to come over and fix the lawnmower, and he decides to throw everything in your garage out too! Does this man have any sense?
Anyway, I have a friend of mine who lives in another city now who is a computer tech, he sent me "Get Back Data for NTFS"
I've used this program before, and it got everything back. The only thing this time around, the man wiped the partitions, and put the OS on a completely different drive (D" downloading") So everything on D is gone, which is unimportant, but it was still alot of stuff. But now after spending the last 24 hours pulling up everything on the previously partitioned, now stand alone drive, the index is completely shot so even though I got the files back (a good 40 000) nothing is what it used to be.
I would rename everything if there wasn't at least 40 000 files, high hats, drums, applications, sequencer PK.s etc....
Is there anything that can be done? I thought maybe I can take the E "Library" which is backed up and is identical to the other 160 (formally C"System" and F "Recordings") with the important stuff, wipe it (E), drag everything over onto that drive exactly how it appears on the old drive and maybe there is a registry fix that would work?
I want to try only non destructive methods at the moment until I can find something a little more reliable.
Any help/ideas would be much appreciated. Well any help besides "that's why you should always back up"
(i lost all my disks remember? I hadn'tt had a chance to back anything up yet)
My PC has 4 drives, 3 physical in all, one partitioned, the other two stand alone. The list is as follows.
1st Drive - WDC 1600 (160G Partitioned) = C: "System" drive (50G), F: "Recordings" drive (100G)
2nd Drive - Samsung (80G) = D: "Downloading" drive.
3rd drive WDC 1600 (160G, in USB 2.0 enclosure) = E: "Library" drive
The issue:
I had lost my Windows XP Pro disk, and had a little problem a while back and decided to clean up the mess and installed a legit copy XP Home. It wasn't really living up to what I needed it to do, so I took the PC to a computer store across the street to a man who installs XP Pro for $30 with antivirus, Nero and the whole nine...I can do this procedure myself but as I said I lost my disks (in a recent move)
I also needed a new case so I picked one up while I was in there, leaving the drives in the PC so he could put everything in its rightful place. (once again, something I can do myself, but this man is a professional and i had other things to do that day)
I left the PC with him, leaving instructions that the OS was to go on my C: "System" drive. Not only do I have it written to the drives so that when you open up windows install/partition menu you see what's what, I also have stickers on each drive identifying them.
Luckily I had disconnected my E:"Library" drive because not only did this man format the partitioned drive wiping everything I had stored on F: "recordings", but he also formatted the "Downloading" drive that had absolutely nothing to do with what I asked him to do in the first place. To me that's like asking someone to come over and fix the lawnmower, and he decides to throw everything in your garage out too! Does this man have any sense?
Anyway, I have a friend of mine who lives in another city now who is a computer tech, he sent me "Get Back Data for NTFS"
I've used this program before, and it got everything back. The only thing this time around, the man wiped the partitions, and put the OS on a completely different drive (D" downloading") So everything on D is gone, which is unimportant, but it was still alot of stuff. But now after spending the last 24 hours pulling up everything on the previously partitioned, now stand alone drive, the index is completely shot so even though I got the files back (a good 40 000) nothing is what it used to be.
I would rename everything if there wasn't at least 40 000 files, high hats, drums, applications, sequencer PK.s etc....
Is there anything that can be done? I thought maybe I can take the E "Library" which is backed up and is identical to the other 160 (formally C"System" and F "Recordings") with the important stuff, wipe it (E), drag everything over onto that drive exactly how it appears on the old drive and maybe there is a registry fix that would work?
I want to try only non destructive methods at the moment until I can find something a little more reliable.
Any help/ideas would be much appreciated. Well any help besides "that's why you should always back up"
(i lost all my disks remember? I hadn'tt had a chance to back anything up yet)
You can take his ass down heehee
