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to you
GREAT way of explaining it! PC Inspector kept giving me errors so I moved over to the next one & it seems to be working (I can see most files) Thanks for your help, suggestion and elaborate explanation.
Michele R. - from my searches, I seems that DriveWorks only works if you've backed up your files *or marked them* before the format.
baddog - actually the dvd burner is finally working. In retrospect, the actual problem arose due to cables either being defective or there was something funky & it would prevent the primary hard drive to fully boot & prevented my monitor from showing me anything. I installed another drive (figuring I'd back up my stuff on another hard drive) but the problems were still there - when I detached the dvd burner the screen came back to life, but somehow an old SCSI card or slot <not sure> that was still in the computer, caused the original hard drive to be recognized as a RAW file system (whatever that means) and everything became unrecoverable unless I formatted. Through forums and whatnot, I read that the SCSI card caused the harddrive to switch to raw but by that time - my problems were in full swing.
Anyhow.....5 days - 2 hours sleep daily & a fucking migraine that hasn't stopped. All of that plus my husband bitching ---- Not a good week