I've had an absolutely horrible day!!...and it's not over yet. $hit!!
06-12-2002, 07:53 PM
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Yes, very serious! I will spend the $199 for data recovery software if I need to...
I don't want to have to do that, but will if I have to. I still have a couple other options to try first. Luckily, NTFS partitions keep a backup copy of the bootsector at the end of the volume. I just need to find a tool to access it.
06-12-2002, 08:05 PM
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Yes, you can send them away, but that is very, very expensive...
They have software that you can buy that will recover corrupted or deleted partitions and will also fix bootsector problems. The problem with my drive is that only the first sector, which is the bootsector is corrupted. The rest of the drive is hopefully fine, I just need to get the windows bootsector back on there and then I can boot it.
06-12-2002, 08:35 PM
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I had good luck with some recovery software that cost me $150.
They have a good marketing scheme. You can download an eval copy of the software that will list all of the files that it could recover if you finished licensing the software for $150. Once you see your files waiting, who can resist spending the $150 to turn on the software and get to work copying the files to another drive.
Email me if you want the details of the software.
Email me if you want the details of the software.
06-12-2002, 08:50 PM
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Thanks, but I just fixed it! Who would have thought it was this easy...
If you boot from the Win2K CD and choose repair, then recovery console, there is a command you issue - FIXBOOT. This inspects the boot sector of the primary drive and fixes it if it's corrupt. Man, all this time I spent hacking around trying to fix it and the real fix only took 10 minutes 
06-12-2002, 09:00 PM
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whew . . . over here all that happened was . . . . .
W2000 lost track of some stupid spool file so it stopped printing for no good reason, and the new dtp software doesn't work right on NT4, and the 'update' of the image viewer has crappier thumbnails . . . . ah, if I ruled the world . . .
06-13-2002, 12:19 AM
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Recovering MP3s...
1) You can configure where GRUB writes its boot information, to the MBR or to the first sector of the first partition.
2) The contents of that block should be saved when GRUB writes to it.
3) Get the NTFS module off the net and compile it up and at least theoretically you should be able to mount the file system under Linux read-only and recover the MP3s. Of course if the file system was FAT, you can mount it natively under Linux...
2) The contents of that block should be saved when GRUB writes to it.
3) Get the NTFS module off the net and compile it up and at least theoretically you should be able to mount the file system under Linux read-only and recover the MP3s. Of course if the file system was FAT, you can mount it natively under Linux...