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C:\ partition is dead....plzz help
Name: ramzal Date: July 12, 2002 at 23:42:07 Pacific
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Hi people,
Disaster today...i have 3 partitions c,d,e...W2K pro, W2K serv, WXP pro on these partitions respectively. Booted into w2k pro and was working when outlook froze so i decided to reboot my computer but got a blue screen saying 'inaccessible boot device'...safe mode doesnt work cause i get a list of multi(0) etc etc. I can still boot into w2k serv and xp, but cant go to c:\ both OS give a message that the drive is not formatted, would u like to do so now? :( Disk management shows C:\ as a healthy UNFORMATTED partition. Shucks, i have some important data on C:\...what has happened here??? someone pulleeeze come with with an idea so that i can atleast somehow get the date from there.....thanks in advance....
Name: ndistress99 Date: July 13, 2002 at 00:49:40 Pacific
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it could just be dead
you can try booting to the cd and running the repair, but running the recovery console, and running "fixmbr" and i think it's "fixboot" i know fixmbr is one, but i can't remember if it's fixboot or not
try those two
also, the multi(0) is normal for safe mode for 2k, and it does take like 3 times as long to boot to safe mode anyway
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Response Number 2
Name: DSurfer Date: July 13, 2002 at 06:28:10 Pacific
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If you can't fix the problem, I suggest you get your precious data back with Lost And Found. http://www.softwareoasis.net/109.htm Once your data is saved on another drive, format your C drive and reinstall a fresh oprerating system on it. Windows 2000 Pro would my first choice. hehehe Good Luck!
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Response Number 3
Name: Mel11 Date: July 13, 2002 at 13:49:27 Pacific
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Assuming that those partitions are not NTFS, what you can do to get your data back is boot your pc with a Windows 98 Startup disk, and then from the command prompt type the following path: Note: Assuming that the data you want is on the C drive, and the destination drive is empty or have enough space:
A:\xcopy c:\*.* /s /e D:
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Response Number 4
Name: antonio Date: August 2, 2002 at 10:11:59 Pacific
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why don-t you use an utility that allow you to see the ntfs partition from dos!!!
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Response Number 5
Name: antonio Date: August 4, 2002 at 08:05:04 Pacific
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