Blue screen after disk failure - disk recovery possible ?

[Dave]

Sending out an email, machine locked up. CTl-ALT-DEL would
not bring up task mgr. Totally frozen, so after a while, I
powered off and on. At reboot, I got Blue screen with :

Stop 0x00000050
(0xEB184121,0x00000000,0xBFD87125,ox00000002) Page Fault
in nonpaged area.
Address BFD87125 base at BFD1A000 Datestamp 38437ed3 -
ntfs.sys

Tried booting from install CD to use repair option with
emergency repair disk, but it never gave me the option to
repair, since I would still get the same blue screen.
Figured it was a hardware problem, so I started by pulling
and swapping memory SIMM's, put in an older slower CPU,
all to no avail, still got no repair option. Finally, I
tried a hard disk change. I have two disks - a Maxtor
120GB was the C boot drive, and a Western Digital 100GB
was the D drive. I first unplugged the D drive, but got
the blue screen. Then I unplugged the Maxtor drive and
made the WD drive the C drive, even though it had no boot
files. This then allowed me to completely boot from the
Win2K CD, so I installed the OS onto the WD drive and got
the machine up and running.

Now I want to recover what is on the Maxtor drive. I have
some backups, but they are several months old. (Really
important stuff is backed up to a USB flash drive and is
current). I tried making the Maxtor drive the D drive by
setting its jumper to a slave, but every time it is
connected to the system, I still get the blue screen. Is
there any chance of disk recovery ? The reason I ask is
the blue screen message mentions "ntfs.sys". Does this
mean that the NTFS on the Maxtor drive is shot ? Or does
it mean a problem in a driver file ? Or even worse, the
drive has a hardware problem, and I need to talk to Maxtor
for replacement but recovery is impossible ?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Sending out an email, machine locked up. CTl-ALT-DEL would
not bring up task mgr. Totally frozen, so after a while, I
powered off and on. At reboot, I got Blue screen with :

Stop 0x00000050
(0xEB184121,0x00000000,0xBFD87125,ox00000002) Page Fault
in nonpaged area.
Address BFD87125 base at BFD1A000 Datestamp 38437ed3 -
ntfs.sys

Tried booting from install CD to use repair option with
emergency repair disk, but it never gave me the option to
repair, since I would still get the same blue screen.
Figured it was a hardware problem, so I started by pulling
and swapping memory SIMM's, put in an older slower CPU,
all to no avail, still got no repair option. Finally, I
tried a hard disk change. I have two disks - a Maxtor
120GB was the C boot drive, and a Western Digital 100GB
was the D drive. I first unplugged the D drive, but got
the blue screen. Then I unplugged the Maxtor drive and
made the WD drive the C drive, even though it had no boot
files. This then allowed me to completely boot from the
Win2K CD, so I installed the OS onto the WD drive and got
the machine up and running.

Now I want to recover what is on the Maxtor drive. I have
some backups, but they are several months old. (Really
important stuff is backed up to a USB flash drive and is
current). I tried making the Maxtor drive the D drive by
setting its jumper to a slave, but every time it is
connected to the system, I still get the blue screen. Is
there any chance of disk recovery ? The reason I ask is
the blue screen message mentions "ntfs.sys". Does this
mean that the NTFS on the Maxtor drive is shot ? Or does
it mean a problem in a driver file ? Or even worse, the
drive has a hardware problem, and I need to talk to Maxtor
for replacement but recovery is impossible ?

The first thing you should do is to download and run the
disk diagnostic program from the Maxtor site.

Next you could start retrieving files by booting the machine
with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com), then run
ntfsdos.exe (www.systinternals.com) do access your
flawed NTFS partition. I think you will only see short file
names. If one of your other partitions is FAT32 then you
can save the files to that partition.