I've used that to recover some critical data before. It was a major pain but it did get the file I needed. I don't know how well it would work for recovering an entire drive.
I have seen utilities that would repair a master boot record without killing the disk but I haven't need one in so long that I haven't a clue what the one I used in the Windows 98 days was called. There used to be a program called "partition magic" that would let you resize a partition without damaging the data then format and install the OS just on part of the drive. I wonder if Paragon's hard disk manager would do any good since you can boot off of a cd with it then work on the disk separately http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/f_fm.htm Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer Microsoft FrontPage MVP http://wiserways.com Office: 713-353-0139 -----Original Messa Thank you! I woulds love to try that utility. It makes sense that it has a chance of working! Diane Ross Clutterbuck wrote: > Diane: > > Sounds like the File Allocation Table might have gone the way of the > Dodo but for the life of me I can't remember if it's possible to > rebuild a FAT without killing the data. > > One thing I would suggest is try booting into pure DOS and see if you > can read off the disk. I have a utility here called NTFSDOS which > allows the reading of NTFS drives within DOS. I can e-mail it to you > off list if you wish and see if you have any joy accessing the drive. > > I'll have a looksie around and let you know if I can think of anything. ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
