Pre Veteran Thread (2012) - Everybody is Welcome !

[tj99959]

 

[Wabbeln]

I think I work with this guy.

 

[tiburonfirst]

hiya, tj! glad to see you survived the run of the beagles!

 

[AttyPops]

So did you and Wab get it worked out Tibby?

 

[tiburonfirst]

So did you and Wab get it worked out Tibby?

nope!

wabb was prepared for back-up help but i really do need to preserve some programs ........ and there's no point in imaging the drive the way it is - all my hope is on spinrite .....
did you see a while back - no usb booting capabilities

 

[AttyPops]

OK. Well, the bad news is that chkdsk /F "Fixed" a bunch of stuff. So it moved data around, filled unreadable stuff with 0000 sector data and made it twice as hard for any recovery software to know what to try and recover... because it was "fixed" already. (This is not a 100% perfect explanation and who knows what the current version of chkdsk does exactly, but you get the idea.)

Ideally, you'd want to run the recovery software on the "unfixed" drive. Maybe it can tell where stuff originally was now, but.....IDK.

I would only run chkdsk /f if I didn't plan on using the other stuff 1st (or I didn't have it).

Anyway... water under the bridge. You can try the new software if you can make/order a cd. Sigh.

 

[tiburonfirst]

true - water under the bridge ........

spinrite will not send cd - their program consists of 170 kb, so small they feel everybody can download which doesn't help me

 

[tiburonfirst]

btw manudawg is in ca - so for him the turning is at 1 am ......... i did manage to get a pm out to him before supper and, i'm sure, catt did too

 

[AttyPops]

Also, I assume it's an NTFS drive.

You can mount it in another bootable computer and try to copy data off it. May/will be some security/permission issues. Best bet before you run anything more on it.

If it just won't boot..... as a last ditch effort AFTER you've tried everything else, you can boot your windows CD in recovery mode and try to copy stuff to another (new) drive. In other words, if just the OS area is hosed, there's hope for all the other stuff. But you want a registry backup of some sort. It's hard to explain, and hard to do.

 

[AttyPops]

Yeah. No way to make a CD and no way to boot flash. Boot the windows CD in recovery mode, and then run the software from the flash drive if you can mount it.

You can test this if you have a small flash drive. Format it and put a file on it.

Boot the windows CD and see if you can mount the flash drive on the system with the bad drive.

 

[Eagle Talon]

http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/d95/1bc/62c/resized/angry-dog-meme-generator-god-dammit-e44cd4.jpg

 

[AttyPops]

Eagle. Don't post that. Bad language in pic. Thanks!

 

[tiburonfirst]

lol, eagle!!!!!!!!

atty, spinrite needs to be booted to - it runs underneath? windows, it's dos based

 

[AttyPops]

Crap. Yeah.

OK, see that list of recovery software in the wiki. Find a windows one (freeware?).

Either that or find someone with a working computer where you can make a cd.

 

[Eagle Talon]

 

[AttyPops]

I thought it was the desktop that failed, not the laptop. True?

 

[tiburonfirst]

Crap. Yeah.

OK, see that list of recovery software in the wiki. Find a windows one (freeware?).

Either that or find someone with a working computer where you can make a cd.

i will get a root cd burnt tomorrow, one way or the other!

 

[FranC]

Good evening...........

 

[tiburonfirst]

I thought it was the desktop that failed, not the laptop. True?

haven't used our desktop in ages - i need to be mobile to catch that signal from verizon - do you hear me now?

 

[AttyPops]

Hi Fran. Hope you're not tired out from all the company. Tibby and I are exhausted so we're on our way over. Stay up, OK?