[Wolves] Help - crashed hard disk!!!

[Chris Maggs]

I was about to say about the repair option on the Win 2K install CD
but I was beaten to it!!

On 19/12/2007, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> 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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> ==============================================
>
> Kevan Farmer
> Linux user #373362
> Staffordshire
>
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