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Unable to boot from original hard drive

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by mark.h

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My hard drive (maxtor) is no longer happy trying to boot as master and returns the error disk error. Got new hard drive made maxtor slave and can read the hard drive, scandisk never noticed any problems. Problem is my account had a desktop folder with lots of subfolders and I can no longer access them as I cannot boot that version of windows (xp). Is there any way or tool I can use to retrieve my data. There is alot of work related info/templates/letters/invoices etc that I need access to, kinda soon. Any ideas would be great although a solution would be excellent!

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by dmiles

See if the following will help
FINDNTFS (URL: http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm ) is a rather effective free program to locate and recover NTFS (NT File System, The default method of storing files on Windows 2k/XP) files. It is available in several versions, including one that will run from a DOS boot, and thus can be used when the Windows OS is not bootable. FINDNTFS is capable of several things besides finding and copying lost files.

Also TR has an article that you can reference 200 Ways to Save A Hard drive

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