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by charvell

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I'm trying to get some data off of a windows 2000 sp4 machine (512MB of RAM, 30GB hdd, P3 processor). I'm getting a BSOD (Stop: 0x0000001E) and the research I've done suggests that the reason I'm getting this now is there used to be an external HDD attached to this machine but it no longer is. I don't have access to this HDD. Is there any way around this without slaving the drive into another machine to get the data?

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by darryl~

or something so I can access the installed drive then copy the data I want off to a USB drive.

by charvell

I did everything i could think of on the machine to get it to boot, but it wouldn't. I found another windows 2000 sp4 machine with open IDE ports on the mobo and put the drive in there and booted the machine. The drive is now being seen as unformatted. I tried doing chkdsk but it sees the type as RAW, so it won't run. If I try to explore the drive i get a prompt asking me to format the drive. Anything I can do or is the data basically unrecoverable without expense data recovery software?

by cg it

Trusty never fail, Norton Diskdoctor might fix the problem.

or do a search on HDD shown as RAW and try some of the utilities for recovery of RAW disks.

was this NTFS?

by charvell

chkdsk won't run at all since the disk is being seen as RAW. I'll look for some recovery utilities and see what I can find.

by l-mo

You tried everything but didn't state if you tried the suggestion.

I would try that route, personally. A bootable disk, such as UBCD4win, could provide you with the tools you need. This is not for novices though.

Good luck.

by charvell

I'm not familiar with Linux, which is to say, I know it is character based OS that is loosely derived from Unix, and similar to Unix comes in many flavors. I may experiment with this as a last resort as I'm likely to do more damage than good.

by cg it

such as booting to a dos disk with checkdisc utility or norton disc doctor.

There are utilities around that might be able to fix the problem. Just google

by charvell

I hadn't though of using my DOS bood CD. I'm going to try that, and do some additional searching, i'll post my results.

by charvell

I was able to use a Windows Recovery disk to run CHKDSK and fix several errors on the disk. I am using a Caldera Dr DOS boot disk, and I can navigate to the files I need to salvage, and I can see their size, file type, etc. When I exectute the copy command, however, it tells me it cannot fine the files. I have the drive in a machine with another hard drive. Is anyone familiar witht he Caldera Dr DOS boot disk? I'm not terribly familiar with it, I'm wondering if I am missing a step I need to be taking.

by charvell

Are there any other DOS boot disks I should look at? I know DOS well enough to copy the data off if I can get one that works. I'm really unfamiliar with Unix/Linus so I'd hesitate to use a Unix/Linux based boot disk, but if those are my best options i'll be learning on the fly :-)

by charvell

I didn't end up using the UBCD, because when i was looking around their site, seeing how i set up the disk, waiting for the install to download, i noticed everything looked very familiar and then i remembered i have a BartPE disk. I was able to use that to copy the file to a hard drive that is readable, verified the data, and am now copying it to our thrice backed up network drive so we don't have this problem again. Thanks to everyone for all the help!

by cg it

using the boot discs causes the file cannot be found error?

might look at drive assignments jumpers on the HDD and ensure it's a slave [just a thought probably won't do anything but...]

Tell you what I used to recover data. EASUS Pro. Cost about $60.00 but it was able to recover the data from the corrupt drive. Was worth the $60.00 to get to the data I needed. took about an hour and a half for a 80 GB drive but as I said, it got the data.

If you absolutely positively have to "have the data" might try EASUS Professional.

Ah well the price went up $70.00....

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/

btw this is a great program for live RAID systems to resize drives using free space in partitions on RAID arrays. Works with SCSI drives as well.

by willcomp

Yes, UBCD4Win is built on Bart PE but it includes many more tools and is more configurable. I use it frequently along with various versions of MS DaRT (ERD Commander) for diagnostics and recovery. Knoppix (or another Linux boot disk) is handy to have when differentiating between hardware and OS problems since it is not Windows based and is a full fledged OS.

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