Recovery

[Guest]

My set up is as follows:
Dell desktop dimension 4400
Western Digital 120 gig ide
windows xp home

After I couldn't boot with this hard drive, I removed it and installed it on a different machine as a slave. I, then, tried to look at it's contents and got disk corrupted error. Soonafter, I ran chkdsk /f e: and chkdsk /r e: and now I was able to see the contents. However, the windows, documents and setting, boot.ini, and whatever other files and directories were missing. Nonetheles, I saw some of the files and directories including ntloader, bootsect.dos, autoexec.bat, etc...

I, then, moved the hard drive back to the original machine. Started recovery console. Did fixboot successfully. Did bootcfg /reload and it failed because it could find windows installation.

Also, I noticed there were a number of directories and files that could be of interest. For example, found.000 and files with extension .chk.

Would anyone know how I could recover from this?

Thanks in advance

 

[Jim Macklin]

Open them with notepad to see if you can tell what they
were. They are recovered fragments and you'd have to be a
pretty good hacker to put them back together if thy are
system files. If they are data text files, you should be
able to read them and determine what to do with them.


--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.


| My set up is as follows:
| Dell desktop dimension 4400
| Western Digital 120 gig ide
| windows xp home
|
| After I couldn't boot with this hard drive, I removed it
and installed it on a different machine as a slave. I,
then, tried to look at it's contents and got disk corrupted
error. Soonafter, I ran chkdsk /f e: and chkdsk /r e: and
now I was able to see the contents. However, the windows,
documents and setting, boot.ini, and whatever other files
and directories were missing. Nonetheles, I saw some of the
files and directories including ntloader, bootsect.dos,
autoexec.bat, etc...
|
| I, then, moved the hard drive back to the original
machine. Started recovery console. Did fixboot
successfully. Did bootcfg /reload and it failed because it
could find windows installation.
|
| Also, I noticed there were a number of directories and
files that could be of interest. For example, found.000 and
files with extension .chk.
|
| Would anyone know how I could recover from this?
|
| Thanks in advance