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by masco_b

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On my exchange server that's using NT 4.0, I have the alert "Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMHardware Profile/Last Known Good menu. I tried to repair this from the NT setup disk and it told me that no hard drives could be found. Can I recover/repair this without losing any info and how?

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by rapidad

If your hard disk indeed has sensitive/important info on it remove it from the machine immediately. then get another drive, use it to make sure the rest of the system is functioning properly. load a new os and then add the first drive as a new secondary master or slave. make sure you set this in bios if your mobo doesnt auto detect. does the mobo see it as a drive? Boot the machine, are you able to read the data?? if not the drive may be at fault. there are several things that could be happening, starting with but not limited to having lost the mbr on the drive. it will now depend on how much importance you attach to your data wether you hire a recovery outlet or just try to reformat with say fdisk.

by fenaikh

Hi

IF you have an Emergency Repair Disk you could perform a reinstallation of Windows NT.

Windows NT could not start because Last Known Good menu is missing or corrupt
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBB/tip0700/rh0732.htm

Off-line Registryediting
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBA/tip0100/rh0182.htm

I hope your disk not crashed where you have to use a recovery utilitites such as:

easyrecovery
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery

Good luck

Mohamed

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by kevin_goodin

Here at work we use ERD Commander 2002 to access failed OS files and then transfer the data onto an external firewire or USB drive. This is an expensive solution but it works very well.

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