Re: Drive failure question

Drive is seen in bios -- but booting with a disk recovery cd indicates not reconized as NTFS -- which is why I hope the recovery console will help -- hopefully fix mbr will help.

philo wrote:
"Dan Conrad" <dconrad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Windows 2000 OS -- used to run an instrument in lab setting. Have code,
but company provided an image disk to restore a new disk -- not the OS
CD itself. Drive is giving BSOD -- and suggests running checkdsk /F.

Question Can I get an CD with OS from microsoft at minimal charge, since
I have the code?

Also -- the reason I want is there are important files on the hard
drive. Can I boot off of a 2000 CD and run a recovery console, similar
to what is in XP. That would give me a chance to repair the HD and
perhaps save the files?

Thanks



If you can a Win2k cd, yes...you can boot to the recovery console


Why not just pull the drive and slave it to another machine runnning either
win2k, XP or Vista


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