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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: neo2112ok on April 04, 2004, 12:53:56 PM
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Hi, all...
I was brought to this forum in my search for a recovery solution for my problem... I can't afford to have a service recover the data, but I need it anyhow.
So, here's what happened:
Some data weren't backed up on my computer.
Turned on computer after installing a D-Link DI704-UP router on my network.
Computer went into a reboot loop that I could not get out of.
Tried installing another instance of Win2k in another folder on the boot partition--all partitions (10, 30, 30, 30, 20G) NTFS.
Installation halted when Windows was installing files during setup (.dll's, etc.)
Hard drive is now unbootable altogether.
Hard drive still spins up with power as normal, and BIOS still sees it.
Can still start Win2k installation with floppies, but not with bootable CD.
"Fixboot" and "Fixmbr" under the Win2k Recovery Console did nothing to improve.
"fdisk /mbr" from Win98 boot disk did nothing.
Fdisk cannot see the partition table. In fact, unless the drive is slaved to a working master, the Win98 boot disk won't even load properly.
McAfee's boot sector scanning utility "EMScan" did nothing to improve the situation.
As a slave to a master Windows disk, the partitions on the bad disk are not seen.
Third-party recovery utilities such as Ghost and Runtime's GetDataBack for NTFS see the drive, but not the partition table.
Attempts to make an image of the drive with GetBackData result in notifications of errors in every sector.
I think that's all my notes... Anyone have any idea where I can go from here?
Many thanks in advance,
Sean Douglas
Norman, OK
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