From: "Wilcox, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It funny that this discussion started in the last few days.. As Murphy would have it, last night while installing a new nic card. Something happened to the boot.ini file and corrupted it. I don't know how or why except the possibility of it writing to the boot.ini file the nic information. I don't think that this information is stored in the boot.ini file but maybe. Anyway the problem I ran into is that the win would not load and I couldn't recover it. (No safe mode, no fixboot, no fixmbr, nothing) I figured I would just overlay an OS on top of the old one and then recover the information, no luck the process would not perform unless I format. Great... If you know what I mean. I have been researching free tools to recover lost data but no real luck in a software that performs properly. I was wondering if anyone has/knows of one. Looking to recover my office files - *.xls, *.pst file and *.doc files.
Just set up the HDD as a secondary drive on this or another machine, then copy the files over.
Chris Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator JM Associates
"Within every man beats a heart of darkness." --The Shadow
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