hard drive help
OK to save me a lot of time and to get into this forum fast i will ask my questions directly.
my machine is an hp, 2.0 ghz intel celeron processor. a ton of ram of which i can't remember. it came with a 40gb hard drive and i installed my old 20 gb hard drive in it. it came with win98, and i got a cd for xp pro that is a upgrade cd. i have had to many times either reformat my hard drive or repair it using the Cd's. i had the 20gb hard drive as a backup copy drive to make sure if i messed up the c drive i could get all my data back. so i would unplug the 20gb drive and mess around with the 40gb drive, if i messed it up my backup data was still OK.
now my problem. sometimes i get on a website it could be anywhere and i must get viruses and my computer goes wacky. i have zonelab professional installed avg installed for firewalls and virus protection.but when something goes wrong i just install the win98 cd and reinstall the operating system and then i have to install the xp system afterward. sometimes when i reinstall xp pro it asks me if i want to repair it and i do and all goes well. but last month i had to go through all this again and i did the same procedure as usual, but something went wrong and my c drive became unbootable so i got a sata drive and installed it. well that drive did not work by itself so i got a card for it, then i saw it during boot up, but not in the my computer screen. i checked the drive in the devices page, it is there along with the driver. some friends told me the sata drive would not work as a c drive so i got an ide drive in the 250gb size. i installed that drive and only got 137gb to be shown. good enough for now but when i installed either of the old drives, they are not seen. I'm guessing the fat tables have been erased but i need the data off of them. how do i get them to show so i can get the data? or what software can i get that will work? i have downloaded a ton of software and none of it sees the drives when they are plugged into the computer. i know this is long but it is the only way to save days of mail at first. thanks for anyones ideas. bob p.
my machine is an hp, 2.0 ghz intel celeron processor. a ton of ram of which i can't remember. it came with a 40gb hard drive and i installed my old 20 gb hard drive in it. it came with win98, and i got a cd for xp pro that is a upgrade cd. i have had to many times either reformat my hard drive or repair it using the Cd's. i had the 20gb hard drive as a backup copy drive to make sure if i messed up the c drive i could get all my data back. so i would unplug the 20gb drive and mess around with the 40gb drive, if i messed it up my backup data was still OK.
now my problem. sometimes i get on a website it could be anywhere and i must get viruses and my computer goes wacky. i have zonelab professional installed avg installed for firewalls and virus protection.but when something goes wrong i just install the win98 cd and reinstall the operating system and then i have to install the xp system afterward. sometimes when i reinstall xp pro it asks me if i want to repair it and i do and all goes well. but last month i had to go through all this again and i did the same procedure as usual, but something went wrong and my c drive became unbootable so i got a sata drive and installed it. well that drive did not work by itself so i got a card for it, then i saw it during boot up, but not in the my computer screen. i checked the drive in the devices page, it is there along with the driver. some friends told me the sata drive would not work as a c drive so i got an ide drive in the 250gb size. i installed that drive and only got 137gb to be shown. good enough for now but when i installed either of the old drives, they are not seen. I'm guessing the fat tables have been erased but i need the data off of them. how do i get them to show so i can get the data? or what software can i get that will work? i have downloaded a ton of software and none of it sees the drives when they are plugged into the computer. i know this is long but it is the only way to save days of mail at first. thanks for anyones ideas. bob p.
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