I have a machine using XP and when I was doing a defrag it suddenly logged out of windows and tried to reboot. When it started to reload Windows it again rebooted and was then in a loop. I inserted the Windows disc and asked it to repair Windows but it failed giving a message Driver_IRQL_NOT_Less_or_Equal stop:0x000000D1(0x00000030,0x00000006,0xF763E9A0). I decided to try and reload Windows and when asked inserted the floppy with the Raid drivers but when trying to load it came up with viamraid.sys-Address F763E9A0 base at F7634000,Datestamp 4063e304. Is there any way I can access the disc to retrieve the data on it. The disc was partitioned with the data on the second partition. I am not a computer buff but would like help. If I take my disc out of the machine can I transfer the data using another machine.
If what you are saying is that I can insert it as a slave drive and then interrogate and retrieve the data from it then I will be really happy. Is that correct?
Another option is to purchase a retail copy of
Symantec's GHOST: it has a RESTORE environment
which loads like a legacy version of DOS from a CD-ROM.
GHOST is a retail product that is available over-the-counter
at office supply stores like Staples, Office Depot and Office Max.
The GHOST restore environment takes a while to initialize,
but it does tell you which devices it detects e.g. hard drives,
optical drives, etc.
After it is loaded and initialized,
you should be able to insert optical media
to create an emergency backup of your
data partition, or subsets of that data partition.
A drive imaging program like GHOST or Acronis
is quite essential for any serious PC user.
If what you are saying is that I can insert it as a slave drive and then interrogate and retrieve the data from it then I will be really happy. Is that correct?
I don't exactly know what you mean by "slave drive".
That terminology is somewhat obsolete because
it really applies only to parallel ribbon cables
that have MASTER and SLAVE connectors, and to
Parallel ATA drives that require MASTER and SLAVE
jumpers.
SATA hard drives did away with that concept completely.
If you have only one HDD installed in your system,
and if it has a (bad) C: system partition and a second data
partition, e.g. latter with drive letter D: or E: or other letter,
Symantec's GHOST will do its best to detect all partitions
on all hard drives installed and visible to the BIOS.
The GHOST restore task is a complete stand-alone
operating system, much like the old DOS environment:
while it is initializing itself from the CD-ROM provided
in the retail GHOST package, it pokes around to determine
how many hard drives are connected and how many
different partitions are visible on each of those hard drives.
When it's done "poking" around, it produces a table
of what it found.
If all you want to do is to recover the folders and
files from your data partition e.g. D:, E: or other letter,
GHOST will allow you to read that data partition and
write an output file to an optical disk, or even
to a network drive (if your system is connected
to a network).
Another entirely different option is to remove that HDD
and cable it to a friend's PC that has an eSATA or
USB port and a compatible external enclosure:
then, you can copy all of your data to that friend's PC.
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