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by don_pham

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Hi,
Please help... One of my user has the HD failed and the OS toasted, can't bootup. I have put her HD to different PC and see to copy files to different HD. Unfortunately, i can open the HD by the window explore. I tried to run the repair from the NT setup disk, but it came back with a message and says that it can't repair. Her system is running window NT 4.0 and has one drive with 2 partitions. Apparently, she stores alot of files on the C: drive. Does anyone has any idea how to recover her files, or may be route the download website for software utility.
Thank you very much....

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by thechas

Just a check, with NT 4 installed, the drive should be a NTFS volume.

If you installed the drive on a W95, 98 or Me system, they cannot access NTFS volumes.

If all you have is W9X boxes to use, try the NTFS reader utility from www.systeminternals.com

I'm not sure what utility I would use to recover a NTFS drive.

Spin Right may be an idea.

Just make sure any utility specifies that it works on NTFS volumes, and you install the drive on a PC that supports NTFS drives.

Another thought, if her drive is larger than her PC could recognize on it's own, a BIOS overlay program may be installed on the drive.
If so, you need to install the drive on a PC that has the same BIOS overlay utility installed on the boot drive.

Check out the TR download "200 ways to revive a dead hard drive" for a number of recovery tips.

Chas

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