Help - NTFS problems

[wanman 0]

Hi, I hope I am posting this in the right place.

 

Have a machine running NT4 SP6a. All working fine up until today. I installed ORACLE forms and now the machine will not boot up. From blue boot sequence screen the PC proceeds to the NT desktop page but there is no NT logo. Immediately it returns to the blue screen confirming a fatal error has occurred. Before I try a notmal repair on NT, I want to know if there is any dos software out there that will enable me to copy a file from my NTFS formatted c drive. I understand that DOS can only cope with FAT16. I am desperate to try and recover this file so any suggestions will be more than welcome.

 

If I can only perform a repair, how do I go about it. Only have an NT4 main disk and SP6a upgrade (cannot boot from startup). If I perform a repair it will place NT4 basic files on my system again. I assume this will allow me access so that I can perform the upgrade to 6a again?

 

Can I create an emergency repair disk on another NT machine and then use this for an emergency repair?

 

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

 

Many Thanks

 

Si

[Davros 0]

The cheapest way to access that file that you need would be to just stick the hard drive into another NT computer as a slave drive. Then you can copy the file.

Or you can get

http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/ntfsdospro.aspNTFSDOSPRO from Winternals, although just that one little tool costs more than Windows.

 

If you reinstall or repair windows, or make any changes/updates to the OS by adding/removing windows components, then yes, you do have to reapply SP6. This is why MS later made it easy to integrate a SP into the original OS disk with W2K, to avoid this annoyance.

 

You can try the ERD if you want, but it probably wont help, because the machine would have to be virtually identical to the one you are repairing. It might get you to boot, but you will probably have other problems caused by it. I'm not too sure about what would happen actually.

 

Have you tried "Last known good configuration" or does the boot process even get that far?

[Admiral LSD 0]

If you have a FAT (16 or 32 it doesn't matter) drive you can copy the file to you can use a Linux boot disk such as tomsrtbt to recover the file but that assumes a level of familiarity with Linux.

[wanman 0]

Thanks for both your replies. I will give it a try tomorrow and let you know how I got on. I have found a piece of software called uneraser (www.uneraser.com) which I will try aswell.

 

Fingers crossed.

 

Si

[wanman 0]

Thanks for all your help. Uneraser worked great although in view only as it's $49.99 for full app. Ended up ditching the hard drive in another machine as a slave and managed to get my files. cheers for help again.

 

Si