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					|  Post subject: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless...   Posted:  Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:50 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | I sleep with beer cans on my head |  |  |  Joined: Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:53 pm
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					| Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless I format it First.anyway around this?
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					|  Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless...   Posted:  Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:10 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | that was a stupid comment btw |  |  |  Joined: Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:40 pm
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					| why wont it read it - do you know - ie ext3 filesystem ? _________________   
 
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			| JFK=GCHQ= | 
				
				
					|  Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless...   Posted:  Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:14 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | I sleep with beer cans on my head |  |  |  Joined: Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:53 pm
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					| Not really sure, Picks up the hdd but when i try and open it vista just says you must format first..., is it just silly vista? think i'll install XP tbh _________________   join the gchq map -> http://www.frappr.com/gchq
 
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					|  Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless...   Posted:  Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:38 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | Decidedly uninterested |  |  |  Joined: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:10 pm
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					| Is this a disk out of your old PC?  Could be corruption, but I'd try it in an XP box first.... _________________  The Pancreas of S.T.F.U. | Never take life too seriously - nobody gets out alive anyway.Disco_jim: um..... I have no excuse. | Chips: Thank the Beef | Rev Dr: Beef, I think i wee'd a little
 
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			| happyslappy | 
				
				
					|  Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless...   Posted:  Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:15 pm  |  | 
		
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				|  |  | that was a stupid comment btw |  |  |  Joined: Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:40 pm
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					| personally id download knoppix and mount it and see what i could see before letting windows try and "fix" it _________________   
 
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					|  Post subject: Re: Reading Data from a harddrive that vista wont read unless...   Posted:  Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:49 pm  |  | 
		
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					| if it's a readable NTFS/FAT volume, vista should show it... assuming it's not been encrypted on the previous machine. More likely your drive is fooked  _________________
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