Emergency: Need to know if this is possible

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I need to get data of a hard drive that came out of a windows 2000 sp3
machine. Filesystem is NTFS. It is a secondary drive that has only data. The
primary drive (containing OS) has become unbootable (stop error....
inaccessable boot device... I tried recovery console fixmbr with no luck) I
also tried running the regular recovery process.

I tool the secondary (data) drive out. It should be ok. How can I get to it?
I am assuming I need to put it into another machine. What is the procedure?
Since the drive is NTFS will I be able to access the data? The other machine
I plan on using to try to get the data is XP Pro sp1. (although if I need a
2k machine then fine I can get one.)

I will be searching MS site for procedures but time is very short. I am
hoping someone here can assist.

desperately seeking guidance.
djc
 
You can install the second drive into another PC no problem. XP Pro SP1 is
ok too. Depending on the NTFS security set on the files & directories you
may need to take ownership of the files and directories before you can
access them. Search Help (Start > Help) for "Take Ownership"
 
ok. good. thanks for the info.

Brendon Rogers said:
You can install the second drive into another PC no problem. XP Pro SP1 is
ok too. Depending on the NTFS security set on the files & directories you
may need to take ownership of the files and directories before you can
access them. Search Help (Start > Help) for "Take Ownership"

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Thanks agian!

Brendon Rogers said:
You can install the second drive into another PC no problem. XP Pro SP1 is
ok too. Depending on the NTFS security set on the files & directories you
may need to take ownership of the files and directories before you can
access them. Search Help (Start > Help) for "Take Ownership"

luck) need
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wow. I've been wanting a tool like that for a while.. even starting looking
into how to make a bootable cd that actually runs windows from the cd...
unfortunately I ran out of time... I will check out what you mention!
thanks

Overlord said:
What I would do is get on another computer, download Knoppix flavor of
Linux, burn it to a 700meg CD, take it home, put it in the unbootable
system's CD rom, and boot to Knoppix.
If you have the ram (it's an entire OS that runs in ram and doesn't
touch your hard drives) it'll boot and run and you can access all your
drives; FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linuxy partitions, etc.
Additionally it detects my cable modem and loads it's own drivers so I
can surf the internet to dl drivers and utils I might need.
Believe there might be an option in Knoppix to burn CDs but not sure
where. Barring that, you could squirt the data down the LAN to
another system that does boot or any number of other options.
When you're done, and fixed your system to go back to booting Vinders,
keep the Knoppix disk for the next time the drives/M$ goes south.
It's too handy to not have around......
Also keeps you from having to go looking around for a bootable system
or cracking your case and pulling drives....

I need to get data of a hard drive that came out of a windows 2000 sp3
machine. Filesystem is NTFS. It is a secondary drive that has only data. The
primary drive (containing OS) has become unbootable (stop error....
inaccessable boot device... I tried recovery console fixmbr with no luck) I
also tried running the regular recovery process.

I tool the secondary (data) drive out. It should be ok. How can I get to it?
I am assuming I need to put it into another machine. What is the procedure?
Since the drive is NTFS will I be able to access the data? The other machine
I plan on using to try to get the data is XP Pro sp1. (although if I need a
2k machine then fine I can get one.)

I will be searching MS site for procedures but time is very short. I am
hoping someone here can assist.

desperately seeking guidance.
djc
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Yeah when all else fails you can always boot from a 6.2 floppy.
But then you can't even access the NTFS disks to do anything.
I was trying to image bootable floppies to CD but kept coming up with
nice bootable 1.44 CDs! That's not what I was after.
I wanted to make those little 3" CDRW disks bootable with 200meg of
space left on them to throw on bios flash files and such instead of
rooting around for an old DOS floppy that might not read in the system
and Still having to have the extra files on another floppy or burned
on a CD to do what I wanted to do.

Sometime you're trying to delete a directory that has an open file
that a registry entry opened. I can always boot the Knoppix and
move/delete whatever I want to on the hard drives.

Used to have a bootable mirror image of my C drive on another drive.
If the main drive went down I could always boot from the other drive.
It was a pain trying to copy C drive windows directories over IN
windows tho. I kept getting empty directories or incomplete
directories because of the open files. It was hard to keep current.
This way I know there are no open files because the hard drives
haven't even been used for/by the OS.

wow. I've been wanting a tool like that for a while.. even starting looking
into how to make a bootable cd that actually runs windows from the cd...
unfortunately I ran out of time... I will check out what you mention!
thanks

Overlord said:
What I would do is get on another computer, download Knoppix flavor of
Linux, burn it to a 700meg CD, take it home, put it in the unbootable
system's CD rom, and boot to Knoppix.
If you have the ram (it's an entire OS that runs in ram and doesn't
touch your hard drives) it'll boot and run and you can access all your
drives; FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linuxy partitions, etc.
Additionally it detects my cable modem and loads it's own drivers so I
can surf the internet to dl drivers and utils I might need.
Believe there might be an option in Knoppix to burn CDs but not sure
where. Barring that, you could squirt the data down the LAN to
another system that does boot or any number of other options.
When you're done, and fixed your system to go back to booting Vinders,
keep the Knoppix disk for the next time the drives/M$ goes south.
It's too handy to not have around......
Also keeps you from having to go looking around for a bootable system
or cracking your case and pulling drives....

I need to get data of a hard drive that came out of a windows 2000 sp3
machine. Filesystem is NTFS. It is a secondary drive that has only data. The
primary drive (containing OS) has become unbootable (stop error....
inaccessable boot device... I tried recovery console fixmbr with no luck) I
also tried running the regular recovery process.

I tool the secondary (data) drive out. It should be ok. How can I get to it?
I am assuming I need to put it into another machine. What is the procedure?
Since the drive is NTFS will I be able to access the data? The other machine
I plan on using to try to get the data is XP Pro sp1. (although if I need a
2k machine then fine I can get one.)

I will be searching MS site for procedures but time is very short. I am
hoping someone here can assist.

desperately seeking guidance.
djc
Click to expand...

~~~~~~
Bait for spammers:
root@localhost
postmaster@localhost
admin@localhost
abuse@localhost
postmaster@[127.0.0.1]
~~~~~~
Remove "spamless" to email me.
The spam was just getting overwhelming.
I had to...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

~~~~~~
Bait for spammers:
root@localhost
postmaster@localhost
admin@localhost
abuse@localhost
postmaster@[127.0.0.1]
~~~~~~
Remove "spamless" to email me.
The spam was just getting overwhelming.
I had to...
 
You need to create an ISO CD with a bootable 1.44/2.88 image. It needs to have
CD drivers and mscdex, then can see other files you put on the CD.

To access the NTFS volume under DOS download ntfsdos from sysinternals.com or
active NTFS reader. Long file names will be a problem.

| Yeah when all else fails you can always boot from a 6.2 floppy.
| But then you can't even access the NTFS disks to do anything.
| I was trying to image bootable floppies to CD but kept coming up with
| nice bootable 1.44 CDs! That's not what I was after.
| I wanted to make those little 3" CDRW disks bootable with 200meg of
| space left on them to throw on bios flash files and such instead of
| rooting around for an old DOS floppy that might not read in the system
| and Still having to have the extra files on another floppy or burned
| on a CD to do what I wanted to do.
|
| Sometime you're trying to delete a directory that has an open file
| that a registry entry opened. I can always boot the Knoppix and
| move/delete whatever I want to on the hard drives.
|
| Used to have a bootable mirror image of my C drive on another drive.
| If the main drive went down I could always boot from the other drive.
| It was a pain trying to copy C drive windows directories over IN
| windows tho. I kept getting empty directories or incomplete
| directories because of the open files. It was hard to keep current.
| This way I know there are no open files because the hard drives
| haven't even been used for/by the OS.
|
 
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