We frequently mount drives in other boxes, use the other box to archive the
data, and then try to do things like defragging or file system repair or
whatever.
In short: Go ahead and try this, but back up the drive (maybe even to
another drive -- they're cheap) first.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 4:47 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Computer Advice
:
:
: 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
:
:
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