TheLastColdBeer Posted April 16, 2013 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.82 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Posted April 16, 2013 Howdy all, got home from a quick vacation & booted up my computer. Wouldn't boot, couldn't find autochk...etc...etc... Like a dumbass I popped in the Windoze XP installation disk and /fixmbr it. D'oh! Forgot I had the original XP pro and had updated my system to sp2 for my 300gig drive. Did I just jizz up my nts file system to the point of no data recovery? I have a spare 30gig hd or two I could install an operating system on and poke around my drive, but I'm hoping somebody else has done this. Lazy is as lazy does....... Awards
simplemod Posted April 16, 2013 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted April 16, 2013 Quickest way to look around would be just grab a live cd like puppy linux or something, it's great for that kind of thing.
KaptCrunch Posted April 16, 2013 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 349 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5164 Content Per Day: 0.89 Reputation: 4416 Achievement Points: 41509 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 68 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted April 16, 2013 sounds if your MB cmos BATERY died and not kept settings or can remove HDD and check in another system Awards
TecHnOBoY Posted April 16, 2013 Member ID: 755 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2191 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 961 Achievement Points: 14309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2019 Birthday: 01/14/1982 Posted April 16, 2013 (edited) Try this: http://www.hiren.info/ orhttp://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktopand you should be able to recover your data. Hiren's has also tools which fixes the "NTLDR is missing" error or check your HDD. It's a very helpfulrescue tool Edited April 16, 2013 by TecHnOBoY Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted April 17, 2013 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.82 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Author Posted April 17, 2013 Danke & thanks! I have a slackware live cd laying around somewhere, I'll try that. I'm really afraid my data tables are fooked. So sad, had a lot of mp3 files from council meetings I hadn't backed up. My fault for not being diligent. Really didn't feel like crawling under the desk and fighting the dust bunnies......but it's about time. On a happier note, now I can reload cod2 w/all the stock .iwd's in place. simplemod 1 Awards
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