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Captain Pike · 06-03-2005, 10:17 PM

One hour before I was about to do my monthly backup... I cooked supper. It was a fine meal, but to the point, computer was down to a dead crawl.

Hmm... reboot, get into safe mode. What's that cricket like noise? Oh the hard drive... well it's loaded up ntoskernel.exe... 2 minutes later, the next module loads up.

Interesting... Shut off computer, get a new drive. Now my plan is to reinstall windows on the newer hard drive, then setup the dying/dead drive as a slave, then try and recover the data off of it.

I have, many many many moons ago recovered files in FAT16 and FAT32 partitions by rewriting the Hex Calculations in the FAT tables. I do not have any modern tools or knowledge on how to do this in NTFS. Specifically XP pro.
Can anybody point me in the right (write) direction? I'd rather learn how to do this, and be more geekier then have to redo my taxes again as I got shafted on my return.

Thanks in advance all.

06-03-2005, 10:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
Captain Pike Upright	Hex Calculations, Fat Tables, and NTFS ... oh my... One hour before I was about to do my monthly backup... I cooked supper. It was a fine meal, but to the point, computer was down to a dead crawl. Hmm... reboot, get into safe mode. What's that cricket like noise? Oh the hard drive... well it's loaded up ntoskernel.exe... 2 minutes later, the next module loads up. Interesting... Shut off computer, get a new drive. Now my plan is to reinstall windows on the newer hard drive, then setup the dying/dead drive as a slave, then try and recover the data off of it. I have, many many many moons ago recovered files in FAT16 and FAT32 partitions by rewriting the Hex Calculations in the FAT tables. I do not have any modern tools or knowledge on how to do this in NTFS. Specifically XP pro. Can anybody point me in the right (write) direction? I'd rather learn how to do this, and be more geekier then have to redo my taxes again as I got shafted on my return. Thanks in advance all.