wrong FS type after BSOD

[paul perkins IOM]

I have a machine running XP Home with SP2. It blue screened with "Unmountable
boot Volume".

I booted the install CD and ran FIXBOOT, this detected a FAT File System.
System still doesnt boot, but now doesnt blue screen.

The problem I have is that the FS was NTFS and now I cant access anything on
the drive, is there any way of resetting the FS type back to NTFS to make the
system boot, or at least recover the data.

I have a demo of Runtimes getbackdata which has building its indices from
the MFT since 1am GMT and is still running (95%).

thanks

paul

 

[nass]

I have a machine running XP Home with SP2. It blue screened with "Unmountable
boot Volume".

I booted the install CD and ran FIXBOOT, this detected a FAT File System.
System still doesnt boot, but now doesnt blue screen.

The problem I have is that the FS was NTFS and now I cant access anything on
the drive, is there any way of resetting the FS type back to NTFS to make the
system boot, or at least recover the data.

I have a demo of Runtimes getbackdata which has building its indices from
the MFT since 1am GMT and is still running (95%).

thanks

paul

Hi Paul,
To get the data first, hook the HDD of this machine as Slave in a USB
enclosure to another Windows XP system and Copy the data to a removable
Storage.
Then start with Repair/Install of the Operating system ( make sure your CD
media installation have the SP2 or you can slipstream it to the CD).
Or you can use the Recovery console to convert from FAT to NTFS by following
these steps on the KB article;
"Missing or corrupt Ntfs.sys" error message when you restart Windows XP
after you convert your hard disk to the NTFS file system
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822800
HTH.
nass