Corrupted Trainz hard drive?

[SuperFudd]

Hi all,
You may recall my 7 year old computer "died" so I got a new Dell PC a couple of weeks ago. The old computer's main failure was the main board connector to the power supply. While fooling with that I glitched the HD containing XP.I had hoped I had only glitched XP and that I would be able to get the files off that drive as well as a smaller HD with less important files.A friend loaned me a IDE to SATA external USB device to do that with. No problem with the small drive but the main drive would not work. Perhaps the drive directory (or whatever) is glitched. At one point I was asked if I wanted to format the drive. I replyed no.So, what are my options now? It is not important enough to take it to a profesional recovery place. ($$$)
I have been creating for TS2009 a compressed verion of the
Western Pacific, Stockton to Milpitas California including the
paralel Southern Pacific circa 1963. Unfortunately it is on the bad drive.
Fortunately I did a backup to DVD 2 days before the crash so,
if I can't get the drive read, all I have lost is the Milpitas yard.
I should mention when the old PC "died" I got the message
"UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME".
By the way this message editor is acting wierd.
I also lost all but one of the seven Painsheded F7s and GP35s I had done for Western Pacific to be sent to the DLS. Easy enough to redo though.

 

[deeelare]

SuperFudd,

The following worked for me in a similar case :
My hard drive became unbootable and would not accept a Windows repair .
I purchased a new HD and installed Windows on it , then set up the failed drive as a slave , was able to salvage all my data that I wanted to save to the new HD , then disposed of the slave .

HTH --- ,DLR

 

[clam1952]

Hi all,
You may recall my 7 year old computer "died" so I got a new Dell PC a couple of weeks ago. The old computer's main failure was the main board connector to the power supply. While fooling with that I glitched the HD containing XP.I had hoped I had only glitched XP and that I would be able to get the files off that drive as well as a smaller HD with less important files.A friend loaned me a IDE to SATA external USB device to do that with. No problem with the small drive but the main drive would not work. Perhaps the drive directory (or whatever) is glitched. At one point I was asked if I wanted to format the drive. I replyed no.So, what are my options now? It is not important enough to take it to a profesional recovery place. ($$$)
I have been creating for TS2009 a compressed verion of the
Western Pacific, Stockton to Milpitas California including the
paralel Southern Pacific circa 1963. Unfortunately it is on the bad drive.
Fortunately I did a backup to DVD 2 days before the crash so,
if I can't get the drive read, all I have lost is the Milpitas yard.
I should mention when the old PC "died" I got the message
"UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME".
By the way this message editor is acting wierd.
I also lost all but one of the seven Painsheded F7s and GP35s I had done for Western Pacific to be sent to the DLS. Easy enough to redo though.

The numbers after the Stop message are usually the clue to the problem, it may not be as bad as you think. Usually googling the first and second series of hexadecimal numbers gets you the possible cause and any fix, if there is one.

Have you tried FDISK /MBR on it? Sometimes a corrupt MBR is the cause on an unmountable boot volume. If not the only drive see here for usage on drive other than the system drive. http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000175.htm