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[Red]

the jocxo sector is corrupted?

[Red]

no , next tip?

if it says something like

d:/documents and settings/jocxo (or a virus somehow hijacked your registry and made it so that administrator is a power user)

and you are on Administrator, then it should be corrupted..

Documents and Settings can only be accessed by Administrator if your OS profiles are seperated into Guest, Local/Power User...etc

BTW: did you install your OS on C:?

Edited by Red, 15 October 2006 - 03:40 PM.

[Red]

yea, they both have an OS both XP

and no hacker got to my pc i had way to much protection... i NEED to get to the files it dead important is there a way to hack into it ?

they both have an OS both XP

you know

when both HD's has an OS

you can only boot to one of them (which is your C:)

BUT.

you can change which drive to boot with on the first startup screen (i think f8?)

[dolphinbomb]

If, on the user settings you chose to make your files private (you get the chance when you change/set a password), then no one, not ever administrators can see those files but you. If someone other than you tries to access it, you'll get that exact same error.

It's unlikely, but it's possible XP is still seeing that, and keeping you from accessing it. since it thinks you're someone else. I can't think of any ways around it in Windows, but you could try booting with a Linux LiveCD, and mounting the drive there. You might be able to get in then.

[Red]

i mentioned it in my first post, C is the master and D is the Slave , as in the master is the one that boots ©

if both drives has an operating system

they both have the ability to boot...that means D: has admin privileges and C: can't access main admin folder (jocxo), because it is not an admin?

Edited by Red, 15 October 2006 - 05:20 PM.

[travis]

Alright, red, you made a great effort, but wrong.
Its a passworded admin account - it can't be accessed from the out side. What you're going to have to do is set your D to boot first in the bios (or manually if you can't do it there), then take what you want and put it on your C drive.

[Red]

Alright, red, you made a great effort, but wrong.
Its a passworded admin account - it can't be accessed from the out side. What you're going to have to do is set your D to boot first in the bios (or manually if you can't do it there), then take what you want and put it on your C drive.

you can change which drive to boot with on the first startup screen (i think f8?)

;/

i was close at least

[travis]

Yeah red, great effort if you have a newer motherboard, F8 will bring up a BBS menu that will let you pick which device to boot for one time.

[Red]

didnt work i tryed like 5 times, it just restarted and boot from the new hd

did you logon to jocxo?

[Red]

no, whenever i boot the old hard drive it would go to the screen that says: start windows xp normally or safe mode, and i chose normally and it would just restart the PC and boot with the new one, then i tryed safe mode and it did the same thing

i think your system doesn't recognize the secondary slave ;o

D: or C: is slave?

Edited by Red, 15 October 2006 - 06:57 PM.

[Red]

D is slave o.o

try switching them around.

normally, a slave drive is designed to hold excess files not dual OS

[shabba]

Ha - Your all actually wrong, what it is, is that your slave drive is a NTFS partition standard for XP. What you have to do is add an account I will post how to do it later since im at work, but it normally takes about 20minutes depending how big the harddrive is, it took 20minutes for my 60gb harddrive so you can use that as a bais. I am also running xp pro, amd 64bit 2.5 and 2gb of ram just so you can get an idea of time.

[Wildicedemon]

I would suggest that if you have both hard drives on one cable you spilt them, set them both to master and then just use your bios or a boot manager like GRUB to select which drive/ OS you want to boot to. I have 3 drives in my system and it doesn’t give me any problems although I have all the OSs on one drive not two.

[Wildicedemon]

Well if you need to have the information that quickly, simply remove one of the hard drives until you can purchase another cable. Assuming that you didn't incorrectly install the hard drives this should fix the problem, temporally. At very least this allows you to retrieve your information. That is, if you didn’t improperly install the hard drives. If, after removing one of the hard drives (remove the one without the data you need; leave the one with the data you need and make sure that the jumpers are set to master.) you still cannot access the data you may have corrupted the hard drives. At which point I suggest that you get a program called Spin Rite from http://www.grc.com/spinrite.html it will basically tell you if you have any corrupted sectors on your hard drive and fix them if it can; if how ever it says that it is corrupted then theirs not much any of us here can do in the allowed time frame.

I assume this is related to something like a thesis paper and you need it by your dead line, if it is I would like to point out that you should have had it stored in at least two places. I also suggest that you go and beg, pled, gravel, etc before your teacher explain the situation and hope to god that he / she understands; he / she may even help you get the data. Ask the college tech admin he / she should be of much help in this department. Out of curiosity how much experience do you have with computer hardware / software.

P.S. If at any point in this you thought that i thought you where dumb/slow I did not; I simply wanted to make sure you understood and thus spelled it out as simply as i could.

[shabba]

Yeah ha i was just abuot to post another way but that way works fine as well