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To: Nazbuster who wrote (3731)	11/26/1998 2:29:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) of 14778

>> Save my disk ... Dan gave you the best answer. If you want to be sure to preserve what's on the disk, install NT on another one OR move the disk to another NT machine. As to the data itself (this is the priority, right?), I take it you have no good way to read the data until you get NT rebooted? Can you boot to DOS or Win95/98? If so, do you have NTFSDOS? Do you have a place to copy your data to? You can apparently access the web <g>, so you must be able to boot something. You can download NTFSDOS from sysinternals.com It will fit on a floppy. With it you can read data from NTFS with DOS or Win95/98. Once your data's safe, you can worry about NT itself. Incidentally, you CAN install a new copy of NT over the old one. I have had some success with a new NT install followed by restoring the registry from a backup, but it's complex, and you practically HAVE to have a second bootable NT on your system to do it. I would NOT recommend this until your data is safe. Oh, do you have an emergency repair disk? Did you try that repair? That's the best first step (rather than trying to refresh the NT install). All this is by way of add-on to Dan's advice, which is the safest.

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