Data Recovery

[killgORE]

No idea how it happened, but some of the Windows XP system files got corrupted. So my hard disk will no longer boot. I tried the repair console, but this will NEVER fix the problem. I need to copy a couple of files from this hard disk, so I can't simply format it. Unfortunately I could not copy them to a floppy using the repair console, "Access denied" !! Darn it (I flipped the plastic on the disk, so It is not write blocked).

The broken drive is recognised in the BIOS. I am using an Abit NF-7 Mobo. I put an old hard disk in for now, a 6.4g disk, and installed XP. Set the system to boot from this drive, and then put the broken disk in as a slave. This should work in theory, however, as soon as the broken drive is connected I get this message just after finding all the drives "Cannot load Operating System".

All help is greatly appreciated.

[5cupa]

are both drives set to master or slave or have u forgotten and put one on cable select.?

or one of the best data recovery is called getdataback NTFS if u can afford it

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[Pita^Norf]

No idea how it happened, but some of the Windows XP system files got corrupted. So my hard disk will no longer boot. I tried the repair console, but this will NEVER fix the problem. I need to copy a couple of files from this hard disk, so I can't simply format it. Unfortunately I could not copy them to a floppy using the repair console, "Access denied" !! Darn it (I flipped the plastic on the disk, so It is not write blocked).

The broken drive is recognised in the BIOS. I am using an Abit NF-7 Mobo. I put an old hard disk in for now, a 6.4g disk, and installed XP. Set the system to boot from this drive, and then put the broken disk in as a slave. This should work in theory, however, as soon as the broken drive is connected I get this message just after finding all the drives "Cannot load Operating System".

All help is greatly appreciated.

Did it prompt you for username / pass in the repair console ? You need these as still need admin rights in this environment.

Have you got a friend that has win2k / xp installed ? Try hooking up to his machine and see if you get any success with booting up. After booting up that installation should take ownership of the files stored on the errant drive - assuming of course you haven't used EFS on the data.

[killgORE]

Well... Sad to report that the data is lost forever. Some how the "bust disk" got its partition tables goofed up, and so I couldn't get the repair console active again. I really don't know how the partition tables got fooked, because I never touched it and I do know what I am doing with partitions and cables etc. What luck when I had just found the solution.

The answer is to replace this file.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\System

With this one..

C:\WINDOWS\repair\System

Or at least I suspect this was the answer. the repair\System file should be a good configuration, and allow me to boot. I think. But I will never get to test this theory out.

I formated the "bust disk" and its integrity seems fine. So I will keep using it. but the OS will be on the smaller Hard disk, because at least it is Rock solid.

[Pita^Norf]

Well... Sad to report that the data is lost forever. Some how the "bust disk" got its partition tables goofed up, and so I couldn't get the repair console active again. I really don't know how the partition tables got fooked, because I never touched it and I do know what I am doing with partitions and cables etc. What luck when I had just found the solution.

The answer is to replace this file.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\System

With this one..

C:\WINDOWS\repair\System

Or at least I suspect this was the answer. the repair\System file should be a good configuration, and allow me to boot. I think. But I will never get to test this theory out.

I formated the "bust disk" and its integrity seems fine. So I will keep using it. but the OS will be on the smaller Hard disk, because at least it is Rock solid.

Sorry to hear that it all went to s**t

That process is called roll back - I've done it once before and is a laborious process.

[Mist]

No idea how it happened, but some of the Windows XP system files got corrupted. So my hard disk will no longer boot. I tried the repair console, but this will NEVER fix the problem. I need to copy a couple of files from this hard disk, so I can't simply format it. Unfortunately I could not copy them to a floppy using the repair console, "Access denied" !! Darn it (I flipped the plastic on the disk, so It is not write blocked).

When your file sytem is corrupted you can't copy your data from hard drive.

[Mist]

I thinks its better to use data recovery software. It is going to recover your file.
There are many data recovery software companies which help you in recovering your data.

[UniRecovery]

With scenarios such as this, try to access the damaged drive as a slave and not as a primary one, if the data is inaccessable, DO NOT TRY to boot from the drive again, also I would not try any windows based recovery software. Furthermore, I would not even try to boot from any CD.
I would advise you to send the drive a data recovery specialist and not to try any further. The more you try ......the more internal damage you likely (most probably) cause.

[harry1]

iif you neeeed the files there are places that can get it back for you but is not cheap