XP Embedded tech support needed

It's an application you run that creates a bootable, XP CD. You can put whatever you want on it.

 

go to another pc to set it up?

 

Yeah, it will walk you through setting up an ISO to burn. The simplest thing to do, if you don't want to worry with setting up applications, is just make a plain PEBuilder CD. Connect an external USB drive of some sort, and boot the computer. It will detect your external USB drive an assign a drive letter. Then you can copy files from the internal drive.

There's a chance that PEbuilder may not see your internal drive if it's SATA or SCSI, so you would have to use the F6 option during boot up (like Windows setup) to install a controller driver. You'd need a floppy drive for that.

 

i created a cd but it won't make it bootable unless i have a bootable floppy... fucking floppy disk, I don't there's one in the shop

 

it doesn't seem to want to work with an OEM version of windows, which is all I have in the shop... but I have a full version XP cd

 

This is nuts.
If you have a 2TB storage solution that runs with XPe, it should be a full solution from a vendor...that means you didn't build it yourself, and that means you should be calling the vendor for support of said solution.
Meanwhile, you should be using your backups (you do have backups, right?) to restore to another solution temporarily.

If that is not the case, and if it has critical data on it, you should not be screwing around - call Microsoft tech support (PM me if needed), and get this thing resolved carefully.

If you have no backups and can't resolve with MSFT support, you might have to call a data recovery expert company. But it will be expensive for 2TB...

If it's just casual stuff, sure, try to get a WinPE setup with the right drivers on it and try to read the data. If it's software RAID, you've got a chance (especially if they were dynamic disks). If it's hardware raid, I hope you can find the vendor drivers, figure out how to integrate them into WinPE (it's not that hard with some internet wizard-like tools), and then hopefully some of the data can be seen/copied to USB drivers or somewhere else on the network (make sure you also bake network support into your custom WinPE).

Enjoy.

 

you're all over it bootay

lacie said fuck you, it's microsoft, i paid microsoft for support, and they said fuck you, it's the resonsibility of the OEM (lacie)

so he wants to hear from their legal department on the matter

meanwhile, here i sit

the drive is in concord for data recovery, nice price though... considering

quoted price between $1k-$2k... should hear something first thing in the am

 

If Lacie sold a complete solution as an OEM, they own the support. They can contact Microsoft as a backup to their own tech support, but they own that call for you... Lacie isn't super expensive storage, but it's ridiculous for them to pull that crap.

Glad the recovery was that cheap. They must not think it's a big deal...

Is it this item? http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11018

 

yeah... that's it

damn thing never even needed to be booted before last week... I need to pick something else out today for them to put the data on

 

update... they're at 94% cloning the one drive, then they'll begin re-stripping the four