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To: Nazbuster who wrote (3731)	11/26/1998 4:40:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Don't know if this will help you, but this is how I would proceed. It seems that the NT install on your drive is toast. I haven't had much success with repairing a damaged install, even with current emergency repair disks it is complicated, there are service pack issues, IE4.0 issues etc. You are going to have to reinstall NT but you probably want to try to get some of the data off of it before starting over. Because it is NTFS, the easiest and safest way is to put the damaged drive on another system running NT. Add it as a slave or second disk. You will then be able to boot NT off of the good drive and access the data on the damaged drive. If you don't have another NT system, you should add another new drive to the current system and do a fresh install of NT on it and then when the new NT is bootable and running, add the damaged drive to it as described above. If you are sure that the drive is OK and not damaged, you can do a fresh install on NT in a different directory. I wouldn't try this if you suspect that the drive is indeed damaged or failing. It is also possible to boot NT from floppies if only the boot files are bad. You can create one with the following files. It needs NTLDR NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI. This URL describes it. support.microsoft.com You can search the MS knowledge base for other articles on NT Boot and Boot.ini etc. There are some other good articles in there on parallel installs and emergency recovery procedures etc. This is a good article even though it says it only applies to 3.5 support.microsoft.com Sorry for rambling, it is kind of late. Let me know if you have any questions, I'll check in tomorrow morning. Good Luck Dan

To: Nazbuster who wrote (3731)	11/26/1998 9:09:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Besides going out to buy a 16-guage shotgun, what should I do to save my disk? Shame on you. Don't you have a backup???? Aren't you a computer professional? If so, double shame on you. You should know better... Without having access to the machine its hard to speculate. Sean

To: Nazbuster who wrote (3731)	11/26/1998 2:29:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.