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by pauly4190

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I upgraded from a working NT Workstation 4.0 to NT Server 4.0... Upgrade went fine. Ever since "successfully installed NT Server, restart computer" message I get BSOD at login screen. Doesn't matter if I CTRL+ALT+DEL or not. No emergency boot disk. I have no problem with a re-install of WS but first I need access to my NTFS partition for data. I could have sworn there was a free program out there to let me access NTFS partitions?! Where is it? What is it? Am I screwed? Please help!

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by kbice

How about installing WS to a different directory, grab your data and then do what you want?

by jason

Most BSOD are due to poor or bad memory. So try replacing your memory.

As a last resort to get data off of your NTFS drive: Download NTFS DOS from http://www.sysinternals.com/ and create a Network bootdisk and copy the files to the network.

by bill cassada

First of all I always recommend starting with a clean server install, never try to upgrade from ws. Second, the free driver to read NTFS partitions will only do that - let you READ...it costs about $80 for the full read/write version. My recommendation? Reinstall NT Server to a different directory and copy over any data you can't live without, then reinstall apps. You'll have a reliable install then and won't waste so much time on the blue screen only to have more problems later.

by john cranny

I've seen it too. Can't seem to find it at the moment, but I think your best bet is to install NT (Server or WS) to a new directory, copy your data off, format & start again.

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