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Data recovery
Name: Ryan Cooley Date: November 22, 1999 at 18:57:13 Pacific
Comment:
I installed Linux on my computer, I tried to uninstalled it properly but Lilo was not removed by the lilo -u command. I had to use my disk editor to remove the reference to lilo so that my computer could boot up properly. Well my computer now boots up to WinNT but I'm afraid I got ahead of myself and did not make a copy of sector 1 (the only sector that I edited) All my data was stored on my D:\ drive to which all reference was removed by my disk editing. My NT rescue disk does nothing (even I don't know why) If any of you experts out there can tell me the disk address where perhaps a backup copy of sector 1 my be. Or any other help to recover my 8+ gigs of data on my now extinct d:\ drive I will be very grateful. The C:\ drive is a 2 gig fat16 partition and the d:\ drive is a 25.3 gig partition in NTFS. Thanks.
Name: Steven Brown Date: November 23, 1999 at 05:19:07 Pacific
Reply:
There is a duplicate copy of the MBR stored at last sector of the drive (under NT4). Use dskprobe.exe from the NT resource kit to copy it to the begining...
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Response Number 2
Name: Ryan Cooley Date: November 24, 1999 at 11:54:27 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for trying to help but I need a copy of ABSOLUTE SECTOR 0 of which NTFS does not keep a copy. NTFS keeps a copy of it's own boot record but that isn't the problem in question. If anybody else can help I would appreciat
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Response Number 3
Name: Vinod Date: November 27, 1999 at 17:18:51 Pacific
Summary: I've been researching out data recovery software...narrowed down to two choices... Ontrack Easy Recovery Winternals Disk Commander Anyone familiar with them, have any recommendations, good or bad??? I...
Summary: Hello. I recently formatted my primary partition C to FAT and installed Win95. Remaining on my harddrive was a second partition D, an NTFS partition (WinNT Server 4.0). Evidently, during the FAT insta...
Summary: I'm looking for a data recovery program that supports the NTFS file format. Not an undelete program, but a program like spinrite that will attempt to move data from a bad cluster to a good one. Please...
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