Drive failure question

[Dan Conrad]

Windows 2000 OS -- used to run an instrument in lab setting. Have code,
but company provided an image disk to restore a new disk -- not the OS
CD itself. Drive is giving BSOD -- and suggests running checkdsk /F.

Question Can I get an CD with OS from microsoft at minimal charge, since
I have the code?

Also -- the reason I want is there are important files on the hard
drive. Can I boot off of a 2000 CD and run a recovery console, similar
to what is in XP. That would give me a chance to repair the HD and
perhaps save the files?

Thanks

 

[philo]

Windows 2000 OS -- used to run an instrument in lab setting. Have code,
but company provided an image disk to restore a new disk -- not the OS
CD itself. Drive is giving BSOD -- and suggests running checkdsk /F.

Question Can I get an CD with OS from microsoft at minimal charge, since
I have the code?

Also -- the reason I want is there are important files on the hard
drive. Can I boot off of a 2000 CD and run a recovery console, similar
to what is in XP. That would give me a chance to repair the HD and
perhaps save the files?

Thanks

If you can a Win2k cd, yes...you can boot to the recovery console


Why not just pull the drive and slave it to another machine runnning either
win2k, XP or Vista

 

[Dan Conrad]

Drive is seen in bios -- but booting with a disk recovery cd indicates
not reconized as NTFS -- which is why I hope the recovery console will
help -- hopefully fix mbr will help.

 

[philo]

Drive is seen in bios -- but booting with a disk recovery cd indicates
not reconized as NTFS -- which is why I hope the recovery console will
help -- hopefully fix mbr will help.

No...even if you could get to the repair console

fixmbr would only make things worse..

you need to slave the drive to another machine
and run some data recovery software