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| 142438 | 2003-05-08 10:41:00 | Hi, An interesting challenge. The situation: A 60 GB HDD with multiple partitions, running W2K. Power supply apparently failed (wrong voltages?) leaving windows corrupt and stating that 2000 root \ system32 \ ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt, attempts to use GoBack have not yet solved missing file problem. Have installed a new drive, loaded windows etc, however attaching damaged drive as slave is not recognised in windows to recover files. CMOS recognises the drive, and the disk management tool in control panel sees the volume but none of the partitions. The files that I wish to recover are on FAT32 partitions, and reading earlier posts EasyRecovery Pro is one program I will be researching. Any other thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers Earle |
Earle (3754) | ||
| 142439 | 2003-05-08 14:05:00 | Try using GoBack to one of its earliest restore points. If still not going: Do a 'repair' from the windows 2000 cd. If still not going: Turn off GoBack, install linux, back up your important stuff to another partition (fat32) and completely reinstall windows again. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 142440 | 2003-05-08 14:09:00 | Sorry, I kinda misread your post. (late at night) Maybe linux will detect your data on the partitions. Mandrake 8/9 certainly can. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 142441 | 2003-05-08 19:39:00 | Thanks PoWa, I have tried reinstalling Win 2k however the system failed to find the temp files it had just installed, and also couldn't recognise the partitions wanting to delete them. I bailed at that point. I have tried regressing about 7 days using goback, it should have been working at that time, I don't know at this time how far back I can regress using Goback. Linus sounds interesting, I currently have zero experience with it, much easier to stuff things up with a little bit of knowledge. Mind you considering the stunning quality of Microsoft products I am sorely tempted to migrate totally to the new environment and but for the existing software investment I would. Cheers Earle |
Earle (3754) | ||
| 142442 | 2003-05-10 14:24:00 | Could you possible take the hard drive to a friends place and copy your important stuff off it before reformatting it? Try a computer repair shop, they would do it for you. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 142443 | 2003-05-11 05:49:00 | I am not sure exactly here... you want to access a file system which is damaged? If so then i would suggest a data recovery program which can rebuild the file index, or make a temporary one for recovery purposes. It listing the file alone is not there doesnt mean the data is gone but the file has. However if you cant read most files or data from the drive it represents that a bigger portion may be damaged, whether it is the 'contents page' data or the actual 'chapter' data |
Captive (3159) | ||
| 142444 | 2003-05-11 17:27:00 | OK I believe that the file system is damaged, when I attach the drive as a slave the bios recognises the drive but I get no drive letters within windows. Is there a way of copying the files that I want across to the new drive without drive letters to link to? I will be trying out a data recovery programme as soon as I have some spare time this week. I am hoping that all the files are there, I think, however that along with the OS the HDD file index (??) has also been corrupted suggesting that the everything is there the system just doesn't know where to look. If the data recovery programme is unsuccessful I will be forced to try a computer repair place I guess. |
Earle (3754) | ||
| 142445 | 2003-05-11 17:39:00 | I would suggest looking for a program which can either rebuild the index, or that which doesnt use the index to copy across to the new drive. btw i do pc repairs part time: www.computermedic.captive.co.nz |
Captive (3159) | ||
| 142446 | 2003-05-11 20:02:00 | Hmm.Norton Ghost is pretty effecient in sniffing out drives and partitions, if it could find the partitions which are "lost', then a simple clone partition > disk may well work. Never tried Ghost to this extent though - so I guess it's - proceed this caution :-) |
Curly (487) | ||
| 142447 | 2003-05-11 20:10:00 | Forgot to add, Ghost will allow searching to find the partitions and even after it finds them, it still allows one to back out and not proceed with the clone. That way at the very least you will know if the partitions can be seen by Ghost Dunno - never done something like this. It's just a thought. |
Curly (487) | ||
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