How to recover files from corrupt drive

[DC]

Hi,

I am trying to save some data from a notebook with windows xp home.
The machine crashes while booting. To copy some essential data I
removed the hard-drive and placed it into an external USB box, but
when I connect this external drive to another xp machine, that machine
will crash also (with the same ntfs.sys error).

I put the drive back into the notebook and tried booting the ultimate
bood disk for windows. It also does not boot, something must have
seriously gone wrong with this drive. I then used the ultimate boot cd
(dos) and I can see the directory structure of the broken hdd there.
So now I need to copy the data out, but how?

I tried to access an external drive using the aspiusb driver, but all
it gives me is a drive letter that fails on the "dir" command, so my
drive seems to be incompatible with aspiusb. Other options to get the
data would be an sd card, burning a cd rom and maybe a usb memory
stick (which I would need to purchase first). But I don't know how to
address any of these targets with a boot cd.

By the way: I used the disk diagnostics from the ultimate boot cd for
windows on the drive - did not report any errors.

I am quiet clueless now... maybe get a more compatible boot disk with
usb hdd support?

TIA for any hint!

Regards
DC

 

[Andrew E.]

With alot of pcs,when you add another hd to the machine by default the new
hd gets placed as 1st boot device,readjust for this in the BIOS...Also,with a
corrupt hd,try booting to xp cd,recovery,select 1 for C: press enter for
password,
type:CHKDSK C: /R type:EXIT When thru,this lets xp try to repair bad
sectors
(usually the fault),& the OS files,once youre thru,let xp start normal,or
tap the F8
key on start-up or restart,enter xp in safe-mode,enter as
administrator,move data
to cd &/or run the file transfer wizard from xp cd,select data,move data to
cd.


"DC" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to save some data from a notebook with windows xp home.
> The machine crashes while booting. To copy some essential data I
> removed the hard-drive and placed it into an external USB box, but
> when I connect this external drive to another xp machine, that machine
> will crash also (with the same ntfs.sys error).
>
> I put the drive back into the notebook and tried booting the ultimate
> bood disk for windows. It also does not boot, something must have
> seriously gone wrong with this drive. I then used the ultimate boot cd
> (dos) and I can see the directory structure of the broken hdd there.
> So now I need to copy the data out, but how?
>
> I tried to access an external drive using the aspiusb driver, but all
> it gives me is a drive letter that fails on the "dir" command, so my
> drive seems to be incompatible with aspiusb. Other options to get the
> data would be an sd card, burning a cd rom and maybe a usb memory
> stick (which I would need to purchase first). But I don't know how to
> address any of these targets with a boot cd.
>
> By the way: I used the disk diagnostics from the ultimate boot cd for
> windows on the drive - did not report any errors.
>
> I am quiet clueless now... maybe get a more compatible boot disk with
> usb hdd support?
>
> TIA for any hint!
>
> Regards
> DC
>

 

[DC]

On 31 Dez., 03:59, Andrew E. <eckric...@msn.com> wrote:
>   With alot of pcs,when you add another hd to the machine by default thenew
>  hd gets placed as 1st boot device,readjust for this in the BIOS...Also,with a
>  corrupt hd,try booting to xp cd,recovery,select 1 for C: press enter for
> password,
>  type:CHKDSK C: /R  type:EXIT  When thru,this lets xp try to repair bad
> sectors
>  (usually the fault),& the OS files,once youre thru,let xp start normal,or
> tap the F8
>  key on start-up or restart,enter xp in safe-mode,enter as
> administrator,move data
>  to cd &/or run the file transfer wizard from xp cd,select data,move data to
> cd.
>
>
>
> "DC" wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am trying to save some data from a notebook with windows xp home.
> > The machine crashes while booting. To copy some essential data I
> > removed the hard-drive and placed it into an external USB box, but
> > when I connect this external drive to another xp machine, that machine
> > will crash also (with the same ntfs.sys error).
>
> > I put the drive back into the notebook and tried booting the ultimate
> > bood disk for windows. It also does not boot, something must have
> > seriously gone wrong with this drive. I then used the ultimate boot cd
> > (dos) and I can see the directory structure of the broken hdd there.
> > So now I need to copy the data out, but how?
>
> > I tried to access an external drive using the aspiusb driver, but all
> > it gives me is a drive letter that fails on the "dir" command, so my
> > drive seems to be incompatible with aspiusb. Other options to get the
> > data would be an sd card, burning a cd rom and maybe a usb memory
> > stick (which I would need to purchase first). But I don't know how to
> > address any of these targets with a boot cd.
>
> > By the way: I used the disk diagnostics from the ultimate boot cd for
> > windows on the drive - did not report any errors.
>
> > I am quiet clueless now... maybe get a more compatible boot disk with
> > usb hdd support?
>
> > TIA for any hint!
>
> > Regards
> > DC- Zitierten Text ausblenden -
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Thank you, Andrew. The problem is: when I try starting the recovery
console, the system crashes with the same ntfs.sys bluescreen after I
chose a keyboard layout. I was able to run chkdsk via the ntfs4dos
tools on the ultimate boot disk, but chkdsk did not report any errors.

I cannot install a secondary harddrive (other than a usb hdd) and even
if I could I suspect the system would crash as soon as I am trying to
access the corrupt ntfs partition.

Regards
DC

 

[DC]

On 31 Dez., 09:08, DC <d...@upsize.de> wrote:
> On 31 Dez., 03:59, Andrew E. <eckric...@msn.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >   With alot of pcs,when you add another hd to the machine by default the new
> >  hd gets placed as 1st boot device,readjust for this in the BIOS...Also,with a
> >  corrupt hd,try booting to xp cd,recovery,select 1 for C: press enter for
> > password,
> >  type:CHKDSK C: /R  type:EXIT  When thru,this lets xp try to repair bad
> > sectors
> >  (usually the fault),& the OS files,once youre thru,let xp start normal,or
> > tap the F8
> >  key on start-up or restart,enter xp in safe-mode,enter as
> > administrator,move data
> >  to cd &/or run the file transfer wizard from xp cd,select data,move data to
> > cd.
>
> > "DC" wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I am trying to save some data from a notebook with windows xp home.
> > > The machine crashes while booting. To copy some essential data I
> > > removed the hard-drive and placed it into an external USB box, but
> > > when I connect this external drive to another xp machine, that machine
> > > will crash also (with the same ntfs.sys error).
>
> > > I put the drive back into the notebook and tried booting the ultimate
> > > bood disk for windows. It also does not boot, something must have
> > > seriously gone wrong with this drive. I then used the ultimate boot cd
> > > (dos) and I can see the directory structure of the broken hdd there.
> > > So now I need to copy the data out, but how?
>
> > > I tried to access an external drive using the aspiusb driver, but all
> > > it gives me is a drive letter that fails on the "dir" command, so my
> > > drive seems to be incompatible with aspiusb. Other options to get the
> > > data would be an sd card, burning a cd rom and maybe a usb memory
> > > stick (which I would need to purchase first). But I don't know how to
> > > address any of these targets with a boot cd.
>
> > > By the way: I used the disk diagnostics from the ultimate boot cd for
> > > windows on the drive - did not report any errors.
>
> > > I am quiet clueless now... maybe get a more compatible boot disk with
> > > usb hdd support?
>
> > > TIA for any hint!
>
> > > Regards
> > > DC- Zitierten Text ausblenden -
>
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>
> Thank you, Andrew. The problem is: when I try starting the recovery
> console, the system crashes with the same ntfs.sys bluescreen after I
> chose a keyboard layout. I was able to run chkdsk via the ntfs4dos
> tools on the ultimate boot disk, but chkdsk did not report any errors.
>
> I cannot install a secondary harddrive (other than a usb hdd) and even
> if I could I suspect the system would crash as soon as I am trying to
> access the corrupt ntfs partition.
>
> Regards
> DC- Zitierten Text ausblenden -
>
> - Zitierten Text anzeigen -

I managed to repair the drive... or rather ntfs4dos managed to repair
it for me. I had previously run the scan utility that comes with
ntfs4dos on the ultimate boot cd in read only mode and it did not
report any errors, so I did not bother. I now re-ran the tool in write
mode and it did find and correct a defect - voila, windows xp boots
again.

Regards
DC