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Hi Guys,
I just ran across this post. I've had the same problem recently that win XP SP2 PCs ruined two perfectly good hard drives (one primary, 80GB and one secondary, 15GB) to the point that they are unreadable. On of them had even it's name in BIOS changed (MAHTOR instead of MAXTOR). Before that, that same PC ran for about 3 years without a hitch! I did have system restore turned off. After the first crash (primary drive), I installed recovery commander and when I set the first recovery point, the second crash (secondary drive) occured. Maybe someone can make sense of this.
I acquired a new Mobo, CPU, HDD and RAM and I have reinstalled win XP sp2 and so far, everything seems to be fine (knock on wood!), restore turned off!
Now I am trying to recover the backup data from the two screwed drives using something like spinrite or similar. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks,
esm
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