What to do?

[Paul2]

Yesterday, I was unable to bootup my window XP Pro on my computer.  I don\'t know what happen.  So, I try to install a clean copy of my Window XP Pro without formatting my computer because i have important files in my computer. But it didn\'t let me.

So, today, I uninstall my HDD from my computer and hook it up to my brother\'s computer as slave while his HDD as master. I turn on his computer, and try to open my HDD so i can transfer all my important documents to his HDD so I could re-format my HDD later on. But it didn\'t allow me. It said Disk is not format, and ask if i wanted to format it. i don\'t want to format it because doing that will delete everything on my HDD.

Is there anyway I can open my HDD without re-formatting it?

getdataback

google it

when you loaded it up with the XP disk it didn\'t let you go in to repair mode? Other than that do what mm said.

[Paul2]

No, it didn\'t give me the option to repair it.

Last night, I try other\'s suggestion to use the PC Inspector File Recovery and got no luck out of it.  It read my HDD as FAT32 when its actually NTFS.  I try to scan my HDD and it take 3 hours long with nothing comes up.  I stop after about 1 hour, and I was about to lose hopes and this past couple of days i was tempted to re-format my HDD but thanks goodness I haven\'t.

At first i didn\'t really understand what mm said when he said getdataback and google it, then after mjps21983 said do what mm said.  I re-read it again and was like, oh.  So i copy and paste getdataback on search engine and there it is.  So, I downloaded it.

I try GetDataBack and it accuratedly read my drive as NTFS.  hooray.  I let it scan my HDD and it read the amount of time it take is 1 hour long.  Whoa, much faster than PC Inspector File.  So 1 hour later, it recover pretty much every files and even deleted file.  As excited as I was, I try to copy important files that i want to my brother\'s HDD...and it said....

copy is available only in the licensed version .

The site said the cost for the "licensed" version is $79....whoa...

what to do next, what to do next?

should i pay for the licensed version?  i don\'t fee like paying $79 for it...

Well are all of those files worth 79 bucks??? Or do you know someone or maybe mm knows a place where you could borrow the software from for no charge.