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Philo Del Middleston
This morning I did a defrag and a restart, got a fast blue screen (no chance
to read it), and now the disk won't start. Recovery console reports an error
enumerating the directory when I try to run dir, and it can't find any files
on the C: drive (including staples like fdisk and chkdsk). Running regular
Windows XP Pro install up to the partition selection screen, it shows the
first two partitions as "unknown" and the 3rd as NTFS (it's a 160gb drive
partitioned to 80/40/40, Maxtor - only a few months old). It did manage to
run FIXBOOT without problem, claimed that the boot sector was "corrupted"
but said that it had successfully written the boot sector.
Okay, so I boot up with my trusty Knoppix disk. Run fdisk in Linux - why
look! There are my NTFS partitions! Imagine that!
Okay, browse /dev/hda1. Holy mackerel! There are all of my Windows files!
Why is Windows so f*cking brain dead that it can't read it's own file
system, but Linux can? I've had so many hard disk problems in the last year
it's getting ridiculous, but it looks like this one is all Windows and not
the HD manufacturer. I always resort to Linux to recover my data because
Windows habitually is unable to read its own damn disk.
Anyway, any tips on how to get my system to recognize the boot disk again. I
really loathe the idea of rebuilding from scratch yet again.
to read it), and now the disk won't start. Recovery console reports an error
enumerating the directory when I try to run dir, and it can't find any files
on the C: drive (including staples like fdisk and chkdsk). Running regular
Windows XP Pro install up to the partition selection screen, it shows the
first two partitions as "unknown" and the 3rd as NTFS (it's a 160gb drive
partitioned to 80/40/40, Maxtor - only a few months old). It did manage to
run FIXBOOT without problem, claimed that the boot sector was "corrupted"
but said that it had successfully written the boot sector.
Okay, so I boot up with my trusty Knoppix disk. Run fdisk in Linux - why
look! There are my NTFS partitions! Imagine that!
Okay, browse /dev/hda1. Holy mackerel! There are all of my Windows files!
Why is Windows so f*cking brain dead that it can't read it's own file
system, but Linux can? I've had so many hard disk problems in the last year
it's getting ridiculous, but it looks like this one is all Windows and not
the HD manufacturer. I always resort to Linux to recover my data because
Windows habitually is unable to read its own damn disk.
Anyway, any tips on how to get my system to recognize the boot disk again. I
really loathe the idea of rebuilding from scratch yet again.