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hafoc, when faced with a crying Tephie at nearly 2am, managed to hunt down a bootable windows CD so I could try to recover my data.
More specifically, he found Bart's Preinstalled Environment. The PE Builder utility constructs a bootable Windows CD from your Windows installation CD (or in our case, the cab files that came on Bill's PC for the system restore function.)
I'll be writing a nice letter to Bart Lagerweij thanking him for making BartPE and putting it out there for those of us that aren't certified by Microsoft to have a copy of WindowsPE to do our own disaster recovery.
I booted up with BartPE and discovered that my C: drive was unreadable, the restore partition (D:) and my second drive (E:) were readable and intact but there was another local drive, labeled I:, that was unreachable. Obviously that was my C: drive.
I ran Check Disk and after marking 4 bad sectors and fixing the allocation table, viola! my PC booted up fine (though with a notable pause as it worked around the damaged area.)
So, next step, backing up all my data!
hafoc, when faced with a crying Tephie at nearly 2am, managed to hunt down a bootable windows CD so I could try to recover my data.More specifically, he found Bart's Preinstalled Environment. The PE Builder utility constructs a bootable Windows CD from your Windows installation CD (or in our case, the cab files that came on Bill's PC for the system restore function.)
I'll be writing a nice letter to Bart Lagerweij thanking him for making BartPE and putting it out there for those of us that aren't certified by Microsoft to have a copy of WindowsPE to do our own disaster recovery.
I booted up with BartPE and discovered that my C: drive was unreadable, the restore partition (D:) and my second drive (E:) were readable and intact but there was another local drive, labeled I:, that was unreachable. Obviously that was my C: drive.
I ran Check Disk and after marking 4 bad sectors and fixing the allocation table, viola! my PC booted up fine (though with a notable pause as it worked around the damaged area.)
So, next step, backing up all my data!