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my C drive on DELL winXP seems to be hosed
my C drive on DELL WinXP machine went belly up. It won't boot with
error message "corrupt hal.dll" or some such thing. Went to windows repair recovery console - can't even get directory listing of drive. "error in directory enumeration". Tried chkdsk -p, it gave up 30% in with unrecoverable errors. Downloaded knoppix and inserted that cd and booted up. I can see all my folders but "my documents" is locked up (I must have accidentally protected it in windows). This folder is listed as ?----- in 'ls -l' while others appear as 'drwxrwxrwx'. I can see other users' "my documents". Also I see that this drive is full - don't know how this happened as I had a good chunk of the 30GB drive as unused. I couldn't mount this drive read/write in linux and hence I tried another strategy. I downloaded Ultimate Boot CD for windows and booted off of it. It can see my second driver as valid NTFS but for C: it says (unrecognized). I then used testDisk utility and it saw the two partitions on primary drive. a 30Mb FAT16 that has DELL utilities and the remaining ~28Gb NTFS. I then used the "Write" option to write what it found to back to disk. I then restarted UBCD. Now it finds the FAT16 and assigns letter C to it and then the second NTFS partition appears as Funrecognized). This has all my files. I tried the testDisk repair a couple of more times - no luck. While in testDisk I can list the files in several folders and they all look fine and when it came to "my documents" it hangs on those protected files. I would appreciate any help copying those files to the second NTFS drive. thanks SS |
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