I NEVER do any type of *drive work* (including normal generic Images)
from inside Windows. (Do I sound THAT crazy?grin)
Plus, I would hope you DO have better toys than me... grin
Rick Glazier
From: Tim Lider
Forensic clones are nice, but work in a different environment then I usually
do.
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:01 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install
Just out of curiosity, are you working on a forensic clone of the
drive, or the original?
If a forensic clone, I've tried some
Just out of curiosity, are you working on a forensic clone of the
drive, or the original?
If a forensic clone, I've tried some creative insane things that
saved me sometimes.
Give it your best shot before you get too aggressive with it...
I'll try to remember the nutty stuff I tried that
I used TestDisk when I was having I/O problems in a box that was failing slowly.
The MB I/O chipset was damaging ONE of the NTFS things, but I was always able
to recover the other VERY hidden back-up one. (I am NOT confusing it with
FAT32.)
I was disturbed MS always made a back-up for you, but
I've had good results with a freeware TestDisk.
Brief description:
Tool to check and undelete partition (FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3,
ReiserFS, BFS) under DOS, Win9x, Linux, BSD. [GNU Public License]
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
As with all data recovery, STOP letting ANYTHING write
to that
MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install
I've had good results with a freeware TestDisk.
Brief description:
Tool to check and undelete partition (FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3,
ReiserFS, BFS) under DOS, Win9x, Linux, BSD. [GNU Public License]
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
As with all data
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From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Tim Lider
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 11:15 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install
Hello,
I looked over TestDisk and it looks
@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install
Tim! Thanks so much for the reply; *very* glad to see you chime in on
this
thread! :)
If you don't mind me picking your brain for a bit (so I know for future
reference, though I do hope to never run into this situation
Hey guys, so I think I majorly screwed up my WinXP install on my IBM T61
laptop and am *hoping* (I think against all hope at this point) that I can
at least recover the data on the HD, if not even fix the WinXP install. So
here's what happened:
I had a normal working WinXP SP2 install on my
If it's just data files your after you can do a new install of xp.
Just make sure you pick the do not format option.
If you don't need the oridginal xp info you can overwrite the windows
directory, otherwise specify
a different location. Once installed, copy your data off drive.
Next option is
?
BINO
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From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Richard Quilhot
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 8:30 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help
@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install
Mother of cr*p. So now that I'm facing reality, I think the Win7 USB
key
did more than I expected b/c when I'm in the recovery console and go to
C:\
and type dir I see very few files and dirs and I also see
...@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:53:40
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install
Mother of cr*p. So now that I'm facing reality, I think the Win7 USB key
did more than I expected b/c when I'm in the recovery console and go to C:\
and type dir I
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