Corrupt Master File Table

[Guest]

I run Windows 2000 Pro in an office network. Last week, I got the blue screen of death, and fortunately our network guru was around and she took my old hard drive and put it in a new machine as a slave to that machine's hard drive. At this point, my data on the old hard drive would show up under My Computer, and my data was available. I shut down the computer and went out of town and came back today. When starting the machine up again, scan disk wanted to run on startup, and scanned the old hard drive. Now the master file table is corrupt and I can't read my data anymore. Is there a way to recover this data?
Thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Ask your guru to restore your data from backup. If she deserves the name
"guru" then she must have installed a system that backs up all your files
every night to a backup medium.

I run Windows 2000 Pro in an office network. Last week, I got the blue

screen of death, and fortunately our network guru was around and she took my
old hard drive and put it in a new machine as a slave to that machine's hard
drive. At this point, my data on the old hard drive would show up under My
Computer, and my data was available. I shut down the computer and went out
of town and came back today. When starting the machine up again, scan disk
wanted to run on startup, and scanned the old hard drive. Now the master
file table is corrupt and I can't read my data anymore. Is there a way to
recover this data?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response...By guru, I mean someone who knows more than me. What if there's no backup? Any hope?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks for your response...By guru, I mean someone who knows more than me.

What if there's no backup? Any hope?

I strongly recommend that you have a word with the person responsible for
your IT operation. If you have a network, and a "guru", but no centralised
backup process then something is badly wrong.

With respect to the data you wish to retrieve: Try the following links but
be warned that this is something for the experts:

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuurstra/downloads.htm
http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,001CVX,.html
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz