Re: Getting Data off non-booting Primary Hard Drive
From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 07/18/04
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 12:28:32 -0700
Also, another simple way to get your data is to plug the harddrive into
another computer with Windows XP and copy the data off it and onto the
other computer to write to CD or whatever you want to do with it. If you
recieve an Access is Denied Error, try this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823306&Product=winxp
---- Nathan McNulty Pegasus wrote: > "Steven Purvis" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:2f01301c46cc6$6bfd3fe0$a401280a@phx.gbl... > >>I have a Hard drive which is the primary hard drive for my >>computer. Receintly the Secondary IDE channel has been >>doing weird - the DVD and the CD-RW connected to it have >>stopped working after a while, which has been happening >>nearer and nearer to the boot up. The last time I rebooted >>the computer it would not boot from the hard drive at all. >>The splash screen for the BIOS appeared, and then sat on >>the splash screen. I took the hard drive out and tried it >>in another computer. The drive started to boot, but would >>not actually boot. A "You have not shut this down >>properly" type screen comes up, and no option on it, even >>safe mode will actually boot properly. They start to boot, >>and then get so far and then reboot automatically. I have >>put in the Windows XP Boots disks and got to the recovery >>console, but this will not allow me to copy information >>off the disk onto a safe hard drive, as access to all non- >>Windows directories is denied. I need to get some data out >>of the Documents and Settings directory. before I can re- >>install Windows XP, but don't seem to be able to do it. > > > The easiest way to access such data is to retrieve it from > backup. > > The next way is to install the disk temporarily as a slave > disk in some other WinXP/2000 PC. If the file system > is intact then you may be able to retrieve your files. > > Yet another way is to boot the machine with a Win98 > boot disk from www.bootdisk.com, then run ntfsdos.exe > from www.sysinternals.com. This will give you read-only > access to your disk. You can now save important files to > floppy, but only with their short file names. If the files are > bigger than 1.44 MBytes then you will have to split them. > > Ultimately you may have to consider this unfortunate event > as a rude reminder that all important files must be backed > up on a weekly basis. > >
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