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beonjohn
Aug 11, 2006, 04:04 PM
I somehow locked Myself out of My 2nd drive
And I thought I could restore security settings to default by formatting and reinstalling Windows XP Professional SP2 .
I was wrong . Now it looks as if the 2nd drive is empty and when I try to access it Im told it is not formatted .
Is there a way to restore the filing system without reformatting ?
I do not want to loose all My data Please Help Me !

StuMegu
Aug 12, 2006, 04:01 AM
Do you know what type of file system was on the disk i.e. Fat32 or NTFS?

Give this a try and scan the hard disk:
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

ScottGem
Aug 12, 2006, 04:23 AM
Define what you mean by locked out? Is the second drive a physical drive or just a partition?

beonjohn
Aug 12, 2006, 11:51 PM
The File system was NTFS
And it is a physical drive

beonjohn
Aug 13, 2006, 12:24 AM
I tried the PC Inspector File Recovery
bad parameter in boot sector: Bytes Per Sector (0) = 0!
I do not know what this means

NeedKarma
Aug 13, 2006, 12:58 AM
You can try:
"boot from startup floppy disks or CD-ROM, choose repair option during setup, and run Recovery Console. When you are logged on, you can run FIXBOOT command to try to fix boot sector."

StuMegu
Aug 13, 2006, 03:41 AM
Can you give us more information, as Scott suggested, about how you locked yourself out of the drive? Did you encrypt it?

beonjohn
Aug 13, 2006, 03:34 PM
Well it all started when I was trying open some files I created and was denied that's when I started poking around in the security settings to see why . I am the only user on this PC I am the administrator .

StuMegu
Aug 14, 2006, 11:56 AM
I assume there is no drive letter showing up in my computer?

Not to jump around on the recovery software but give this one a try:

http://www.handyrecovery.com/

I have had some success with this also, I find that some programs just work better in different situations.

Is this computer on a network (LAN)?
Is it on a domain or a workgroup?