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vista can't see drive after using partition magic!

Asked by davekuhar in Computer Hard Drives, Microsoft Operating Systems, Windows Vista

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I have a dell xps 420 with vista. It came with a 320GB.  15GB of it is for recovery partition.  hard driveI made a mistake and I need help fixing it. I wanted to copy my OS onto a WD740 10,000rpm drive. I went to Western Digital and didnt find any software to transfer the OS, so I installed partition magic,  of course vista said that it wasnt compatible but I installed it anyway and I right clicked the icon and went to properties and compatibility tab and set  the compatibility  mode to run under  windows xp. When I opened partition magic the fist thing came up was an message saying that there was something wrong with a sector and asked me if I wanted to fix it, I said no.  partition magic didnt see C drive, so I closed partition magic and reopened it and fixed that bad sector and it still didnt see C drive. I restarted my pc and  I wasnt able to log onto vista. I wasnt able to repair it either. I tried several times. I felt partition magic would work, but nope,, I learned.  So I installed a fresh copy of vista onto my new WD740 10,00rpm drive.
I installed the 320GB drive as a slave it still doesnt see that partition with the OS on it! But it does see the recovery partition!  I need to see that partition so I can get my data off it.  Yea, I know, I blew it, so, now I need your help. If you need more info. Please ask, thanks,
Dave
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