[Wolves] Help - crashed hard disk!!!

Mark Ellse me at chaseacademy.com
Wed Dec 19 11:44:40 GMT 2007


OS is Windows 2000. FS is NTFS. Have put computer into another machine 
with Windows 2000 and it recognises that there is a disk there, but 
can't access the disk.

Mark

Kevanf1 wrote:
> On 19/12/2007, Mark Ellse <me at chaseacademy.com> wrote:
>   
>> Last day of term. The hard disk on the accounts computer has crashed
>> just before payroll. The disk is obviously not totally unreadable
>> because when we reboot from that computer it starts to load Windows 2000
>> but fails to complete. But I can't read the disk when putting it on
>> another machine. It is an NTFS disk.
>>
>> Does anyone have any expertise in getting date off? Or does anyone know
>> of any recovery service? Very happy to pay for the service of course.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>     
>
> I've managed to get a Win 2000 disk up and running again.  It sounds
> as though the OS is corrupted in this case?  There is a recovery
> option on the Win 2000 disk if I recall correctly.
>
>  Have you tried accessing the drive from an XP machine?  I'd try this
> first to get the important stuff off it.  Otherwise, there is always
> something like 'Lost and Found' (excellent program for recovery work).
>
>
>   



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