NTFS query

General Computing Microsoft Windows
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I have a dead PC.
Well more exactly I have a Dell PC from a friend with a M-M-M-M-M axtor disk that has unsurprisingly lost the plot regarding being a storage device.

Having tinkered with it for a day and given up the conclusion is its still a disk but massively corrupted, XP just gives up during the boot, safe mode does the same in slow motion.
Booting Knoppix says the filesystem needs to be checked before it can be mounted but the partition table is readable.

I would at this point re-install XP but its a Dell special build I suspect, no disks of course just a licence key on the box.

So, on to the vinegar strokes, can a Win2k System repair XP Pro NTFS volumes if I drop the drive in as a second drive in a working machine?

Once I’ve got the data off this bloody Maxtor its going to have a unique field trial involving one of those sheen X300 weedburner things at full chat so see what its melting point is.

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I don’t know, but I’d like to see it up against the weed whacker!! :smiley:

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I don’t think there were any big changes in NTFS between Win2k and XP, so I’d give it a go. The windows “check disk” is a start, but a chkdsk /f seem to go deeper if needed.

4

Can’t see why the 2000 machine wouldn’t be able to fix the disk - if the OS is borked it won’t be able to fix that though.

5

should be something at http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/ if you need it :xfinger:

6

Not to troubled about the OS, theres a few important files on there though. Mostly digital photos and the odd letter.

Its funny how people dont think these are important until they are at risk of vanishing for ever :rolleyes:

7

Try Spin Rite from Mr. Steve Gibson http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
It will repair 99.9% of hard drives…I have used it many times, and well it works!

NTFS is same on 2000 and XP so not to worry also for FYI.

Good luck!

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[QUOTE=STEP2000;386142]Try Spin Rite from Mr. Steve Gibson http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
It will repair 99.9% of hard drives…I have used it many times, and well it works!

NTFS is same on 2000 and XP so not to worry also for FYI.

Good luck![/QUOTE]

I’ll second that. I’ve also used grc to check my security for years. While your on the site, you might like to check out the dcombob.exe and socketlock.exe too.

Regards, Slugbug