My boss machine died recently... it began doing all kinds of goofy stuff and finally stopped booting.
Well, I finally got it into the computer shop, where they took a good look at it and told me the motherboard was fried. Replaced the motherboard with something faster, upgraded to 1.5 GB DDR ram, the thing sounds like a new machine. The only catch is... the bad motherboard caused the hard drive to become 100% fragmented. I mean, the tech explained to me the entire disk defrag box was red. He can get the machine to boot, it will very, very slowly start the OS in safe mode, and it says it has 10 GB in 'free space'. When he tries to run the defrag dialog, it very, very slowly starts, runs for a while, then freezes. He feels it is a lost cause. I would just rebuild the box, but the drive contains a valuable side project I am commited to demoing in September (which has me feeling like a moron for not backing up to another media). So I cannot lose the data on the drive. Right now, the computer cannot accept a network connection, write to a CDR or Zip Disk, or do anything else to connect to another computer or removable media source. The idea I had was to mount the drive in another machine, defragment it there, and hopefully get the data back. The complication is that this machine was running Win2k on an NTFS mount, and I am not sure what kinds of issues I am going to run into trying to fix the box. Is NTFS going to yell at me if I put the drive in another machine and try to defrag it from there? Probably, but maybe some genius out there knows of a way... M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
