OK.... it was running and then stopped at "stage 2 of 3. Chkdsk is Verifying Indexes" An Unspecified Error occurred (6672732e637878 41a) And...
I'll look into it... maybe someone has a Dell recovery drive that will work. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hi hawk1, No, unfortunately, no recovery drive. I usually do make recovery cd's when I get a new system, but I either did not do it, or have...
Yes, it's a Seagate 1.5TB from a Dell desktop.
I opened up Disk Manager and my drive #1 (messed up drive) has 3 partitions: 39MB Healthy OEM Partition Recovery (G) 9.12GB NTFS Healthy (Primary...
NEWSFLASH: I have the old HD installed and it shows up as drive "D". But when I select it I get an error message that reads that I need to...
I may have made a bad choice when selecting which partition should be "active".
Yes, at least I believe it was the Win 7 partition, as it was the OS partition.
I don't recall off hand, but I think it had 4 partitions. Maybe I can look at it when I get it mounted in the other desktop.
Hi Brian K. I actually created an Image on my second HDD I my desktop that I used as Data storage. I figured that if I needed the Image it would...
chrome_sturman, Thanks for the help. I going to try to put the drive in my other system tonight. I'll report on my success. Regards.
Is there anything "special" I need to do after installing the old corrupted OS HDD in the other desktop? After I boot, will the old drive...
How much more damage could trying the image restore do to the drive if it's unsuccessful?
Thanks! This will be next on the list after I remove the drive and install it on my other machine.
Thanks. Nothing to lose if I remove the drive and install it on my other machine. I was going to try to image restore, but I'll try moving the...
I have another desktop that is almost the same model at home and I could take the drive out of the one that's not booting and install it on the...
Hi chrome_sturmen, Yes, I have tried all of those commands without any success. Something that puzzles me, is that the commands say they have...
Hi BrianK. I have to admit my lack of knowledge on this.... I don't know how to mount Win7 image as a virtual drive. Not sure where or how to...
Thanks gambla. Do you think I should try each one in the order they are listed, until I try them all or have success.... whichever comes first?...
Thanks Osaban, Yes, I tried to start in safe mode and kept looking back to the same error message.
Hi All. I have been trying to get my HD to boot for over a week now. It crashed when I updated to Win10 from 7, and then tried to go back to 7....
Hi All. I allowed start-up repair to run to it's completion and re-started. The computer still won't boot, I get an error now that says...
I have decided before I go into trying to recover individual files, I will try to revive my HDD. I believe that the problem lies n the registry...
I agree. Years ago I had numerous email exchanges with Todd. He was helpful and a real gentleman. I am so glad to learn he is still on the scene.
Brummelchen, Thank for the info, I have not had a chance to work on trying to reover things yet, but I really am anxious to get working on it....
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