Re: HELP: Lost a disk
From: Mark Gaither (mgaither@cmgisolutions.com)
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:33:53 -0600
At 09:58 AM 11/29/99 -0600, you wrote:
>At 10:23 PM 99/11/28 , Mark Gaither wrote:
>>Geeks:
>>I've lost my D: drive on my Win NT 4.0 Intel box. Can anyone
>>recommend a tool to get it back? Or at least some of the
>>data. I think the FAT is corrupted.
>
>MARK: Go to the ONTRACK.com site and download their recovery tool from
>their free software and demos section.
>
>Ditto for PowerQuest.com - they have a tool called Lost & Found designed
>for this purpose and you can download a trial version.
>
>If the data structures are just scrambled one of these may be able to get
>back the drive.
>
>If the D: drive is NTFS you are in for a slightly trickier time because you
>may have to boot an NT system from another hard drive in order to "see" it.
>If you can only boot Win9x, then try one of the NTFS from DOS/Win9x
>utilities. There are free ones that can read NTFS from DOS/Win9x and
>purchasable ones that can even write to it.
>
>Of course you could just put in a new disk and restore from your backup.
>
>You *do* have backups, right? ;-)
>
>Oh. Well... maybe *next* time.
Thanks Laurence. I'll give these a try. You are right, it is NTFS not FAT.
Mark
