Volume damaged after defragmentation

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Hans Pich

Hello,

after running a defragmentation of my NTFS Volume, the pc
can't boot. The error mesyage is somthing like: volume not
readable (Original was German). No i found a tool which is
able to restore some of the files of my volume. Is there a
possibility to restore the whole volume ?
Should i use the Recovery console from the Windows Setup
CD (Wiederherstellungskonsole).

Hans
 
Should i use the Recovery console from the Windows Setup
CD (Wiederherstellungskonsole).

Hans
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It's worth a try -- if it works (and it probably will), fine, and you will
probably not damage your data. However, with W2K nothing is guaranteed. :-(

In any case, I strongly recommend that your partition ** your hard drive into
at least two volumes (C: and D: -- you can rename D: later if you wish.)
Store all your data on D:. That way, when (not if, sadly) W2K acts up again,
you can repair or reinstall without touching your data. NB that a reinstall
means reinstalling applications and service packs, too, so I would always try
a repair first. ** Partition Magic is a good utility for this, but there are
others. Ask about them at your computer store.

As for defragmenting: doing this at shorter intervals reduces the risk of
messing up the drive.

HTH&GL
 
I have a Sigmatel AC'97 sound card (built in on my MIS motherboard) and
running Windows 2000. The sound card functions fine EXCEPT for the line-in.

When Windows first is starting, the line-in is active and I can hear the
audio feed to the line-in but about half way thought the startup process the
line-in audio is cut off and doesn't function after that.

I have tried every setting I can think of, updated with the latest versions of
drivers.

Any thoughts or ideas to get this working?
 
Ditto on the dual-partition. At my company we alwyas have
either dual-partition drives or, better, two drives.
At home, I have at least two drives in every computer.

I once had a computer unbootable after a defrag. The RAM
eventually was found to be bad. During a defrag your data
gets copied off the hard drive into RAM and then gets
repasted back onto the platters. So my defrag actually
trashed my data. The bad RAM wouldn't allow a reinstall.
The RAM had been good for 3 years but suddenly wouldn't
allow a reinstall of any OS from Win95 to WinXP or even
Linux.
 
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