Thank Brian K and to everyone for all the help ! You all are great .
Hi Brian K. Yes. I will put that plan in the works. I'll do a Macrium Image backup of that trashed drive. Then, I can try to restore the image...
Hi zapjb. Different software ? As in perhaps a different OS or something else? What do you suggest I try ?
Well here it is 7 hours later and the restore had made it to about 1/3 completion. Then... all of the sudden things stopped, my restore screen...
Thanks paulderdash. This morning when I arrived at my office, I saw more progress, although once again not much. The process is now 25%...
Hi crome_sturmen. Yes, I guess I could install the OS (trashed) drive in my home desktop again and try to recover the data. I planned to try it...
Yes... It's driving me Bonkers !
This morning they restore process had made some progress, but not as much as I had hoped. I had hoped for at tleast 1/2 finished... but it's...
Hi Brian K. No, I've not recovered any data off the old drive as of yet. I had planned to use the 4TB drive to recover the data onto. Plus, I...
Good Morning everyone! Good News / Bad News.... When I arrived this morning I was pleased to see that the status bar had, indeed, made progress....
chrome_sturman. Thanks... I'm trying to stay positive..... :.)
Thanks again Brian K. I hope when I go into the office tomorrow morning the restore will be either done or far along.
It's been 4 hours and no progress yet as far as I can see on the status bar. I haven't seen any action on the Hard Disk Activity light either....
I've started the process. Two things.... When I looked at the disks in Diskpart, List Disks, it showed drive 0 as almost 4TB. But I didn't do...
I hope not.... I'll find out soon.
Thanks a lot for the link. I'll report back after I try my luck. Regards.
The Win7 Ultimate CD I have is a 64bit, the same OS as the "OS" HD has/had on it. It's an install disk. I use it to boot the desktop. is there...
64bit. Thanks for the concise explanations.... I'm gunna try to let 'er fly tomorrow.
Hi Brian K. I just pulled the HD's out of the Home computer to take them to work and reinstall them. I also have the new 4TB drive. I want to...
Ok. Thanks!
Will do... enjoy your weekend!
Thanks for all the help. I'll give it a go by putting the DATA drive that has the image and backup on it, and the new 4TB drive in the work...
I guess the best plan would be to try to somehow backup/recover all the data on the OS drive first and then restore the image and then undelete...
I believe it happed when I ran one of the chkdks /f scans. I actually have a brand new 4TB drive sitting in the box. I had planned to ad it as a...
Mini Tool Partition Wizard completed and discovered numerous items, many of them described as "BOOT". What to do with them? Should I go onto the...
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