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    beonjohn Posts: 4, Reputation: 1
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    #1

    Aug 11, 2006, 04:04 PM
    Acsess 2nd drive without reformatting
    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 !
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    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
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    Aug 12, 2006, 04:23 AM
    Define what you mean by locked out? Is the second drive a physical drive or just a partition?
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    Aug 12, 2006, 11:51 PM
    The File system was NTFS
    And it is a physical drive
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    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
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    #6

    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."
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    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?
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    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 .
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    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?
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