Edward Garner

Thanks to everyone for their replies. Learn from my mistake! Don't let XP (SP2) do a CHKDSK on your hard drive from another system. I called Microsoft (almost no help at all). They said XP would perceive the hard drive as a threat, and not allow access to the data. I called a forensic data recovery company. They said CHKDSK will write zeroes to the hard drive (that's what happened). The cost to evaluate the hard drive is $100. To fix it cost $300 -$1,700. Guess who wants to be a forensic data recovery specialst! The crazy thing is that I put this hard drive in my customer's XP home PC with no problems. I went through every sub-directory with her to copy over needed files. I had no problems. She said she didn't need this particular sub-directory because she hadn't used the program in years. I took the computer away for disposal. Of course she calls me several days later wanting that sub-directory. The lesson is to give the customer everything.

Hi, I was about to transfer data from Windows ME to XP when the drive could not be read. (on startup, XP's CHKDSK ran on the ME drive.) I placed the hard drive back into the original PC and received an invalid disk error message. I booted from a 2000 CD to look at the data and saw zero byte folders & *.CHK files. it has hs_err_*.log's Is there anything that can be done with this? (I don't have an ME cd.) Thank you, Edward Garner egarner123@aol.com