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Tks - I'm just running TestDisk which I vaguely remember helping me a few years back with something similar - it's turning up a ton of errors . Will post up info when it's completed.
Tks - I'm just running TestDisk which I vaguely remember helping me a few years back with something similar - it's turning up a ton of errors . Will post up info when it's completed.
I've noticed that in disk management some of your partitionx do not have drive letters associated with them. You need to right-click the partitions that do not, and click "Assign Drive Letter" (or something similar) and manual assign each of them a different drive letter.
Adding to what Petey said, do you still have the XP drive with the 8 partitions you copied from? Try another copy with only those two drives connected and wipe the current copy first.
Be careful with testdisk. The "errors" you may be referring to might actually just refer to "deleted" or "missing" partitions that were replaced by you or installs that were truly and correctly desired.
It might be best to first use testdisk to copy out all data that you might want to recover before using it to correct errors.
Try that Disk Management screenshot one more time, with the window maximized and the panes/columns adjusted to display maximum info.
For some reason it seems none of the logical partitions in the extended partition on Disk1 got drive letters. Using DM to add drive letters for them will allow you to see them in explorer.
WAYHO!!!!! Unbelievably that appears to be all that was needed & my huge apologies that I stupidly never even noticed that fact .
Thanks SO much guys - can't tell you how grateful I am for all of you who've put in ideas & for this one finally getting me sorted. Each partition is showing up perfectly now & all data intact.
I'll organise a proper & fuller backup now before anything else happens, & figure out what to do with XP another time, taking on board all the suggestions put forward.
THANK YOU!!!
Romayne
I'm truly glad to have been of service. Funny how sometimes its the simplest things. Go ahaed and get those backups done. They are a life saver.
You're welcome Romayne, as a friend said today, he learned something by "dumbing into it" which is how I've learned.
Good catch, Petey! + Rep
Thanks Greg. You deserve some of the credit. You were the first person to teach me to look for that.