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offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-04-06 12:44 [#01134766]
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well.. i cant start my pc anymore, and i have to finish
something rather important this week for school. The video
and text are on the harddrive, but if it wont boot i think i
have a bit of a fucking problem. Anyway, in the hope that
anyone can help me:

windows xp is installed, so i think its ntfs partitioned.
When i boot i get a blue screen with some babbles about a
error in ntfs.sys i think.. when i run the recovery console
i cant do 'dir' on the drive, chkdisk gives the same blue
screen of death. so: did my harddisc crash, is there
anything to do about it?

im quite pissed really. I tried connecting the hd to my
other pc, but that one crashes too when its connected. any
tips would be appreciated!!


 

online recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-06 12:45 [#01134770]
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B9, sucks to be you right now


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-04-06 12:47 [#01134773]
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im pretty much losing it, yes


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-06 12:47 [#01134774]
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I've had this error I think. The solution is on the
microsoft site. Put in ntfs.sys and you should find it.


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-04-06 12:48 [#01134776]
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really? but i cant acces the drive by any means


 

online recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-04-06 12:48 [#01134777]
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heres the fix:
turn off your computer
go take a shower
come back
turn on your computer
viola !
fixed

yer welcomme


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-06 12:49 [#01134778]
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offline acidophilus from the gates of dawn on 2004-04-06 12:50 [#01134780]
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try booting from the xp cd.


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-04-06 12:54 [#01134786]
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i did, cannae see the discs content

fuck i need a 1 gig large file for school :(


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-04-06 12:55 [#01134787]
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Yo, JAroen, unfortunately my laptop hard drive suffered a
physical crash last week and I recovered everything
successfully, though it took a little bit of work (and that
drive is no completely annihilated).

If it's physical damage then make sure you use it as little
as possible and spend its remaining running time backing it
up (lots of ways to do that even in this condition).

The drive may physically be fine, it might just be some
filesystem snafu. Try giginger's suggestion and also try
mucking around with some files by plugging it in to another
computer. When you plug it into another computer make it
the _subordinate_ drive on that computer--don't try booting
off of it, and use the drive you booted off of to rescue
that one.


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-04-06 12:56 [#01134789]
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Yeah, try booting from the xp cd and reinstalling. There's
an option where you can reinstall the OS without losing HD
data. It doesn't sound like a hard drive problem,
thankfully.


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-04-06 12:57 [#01134790]
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Then my advice = NULL AND VOID


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-04-06 12:57 [#01134793]
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that could just be a standard error with filesystem fuck up,
with your solution catching the most probable fault. I'm
not a windows guy so I don't know specifically, but I'm just
saying..


 

offline acidophilus from the gates of dawn on 2004-04-06 12:58 [#01134795]
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bbbut... if you boot from the cd you should be able to
install xp over your old setup, unless there are physical
errors on the harddrive itself.

well... if it doesn't work, then i guess things don't look
too good. :(


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-06 13:03 [#01134807]
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go to recovery console and do:
fixmbr
fixboot


it's bad that chkdsk gives you a bluescreen, cause that has
saved me many times before. sometimes it actually helps to
tak. the drive out and give it a little slap (seriously). or
try moving the drive into a machine which can boot and
seeing if windows reads it.. if it does do chkdsk /r


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-04-06 13:06 [#01134821]
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thanks for all the help guys

horse: im afraid of physical damage so tapping it aint the
best idea

i tought about fixing the boot record stuff

but i need to know
will it erase my data?


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-04-06 13:07 [#01134823]
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partition table/mast boot record won't get in the way of
other contents on disk--don't worry


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-04-06 13:09 [#01134826]
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by the way, it's actually possible to delete your partition
table and then reconstruct it .. so really these procedures
aren't bad.

just remember if it _is_ physically damaged, don't have it
on too much. 5400rpm is fast!


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-04-06 13:45 [#01134875]
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well that sucks

fixboot and fixmbr do not work

great.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-04-06 13:50 [#01134882]
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format c:


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-06 13:53 [#01134888]
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Well, it sounds like it is physically damaged already.


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-04-06 13:54 [#01134890]
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JAroen, try my earlier suggestion of plugging it into
another computer (again), but as the subordinate drive, so
that you boot off of the other computer's regular primary
drive and then access it from there. If that works, first
back up your sensitive files and then we can try to fix the
drive.


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-04-06 13:55 [#01134892]
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even with a crashed head data can be retrieved, so situation
isn't bad


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-04-07 05:27 [#01135436]
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well cheers for the help everyone

but it didnt work. pluggin into other pc = pc crashes
2000/98 bootdisk = cant see drive
fixboot / fixmbr after booting from xp installation cd: no
effect

:( so i took it to some pc company and they are gonna try to
recover it & put it on a new drive

... end of story, its out of my hands now :(



 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2004-04-07 05:29 [#01135437]
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i hope yr pc gets well soon j-ro!

:DDDD


 

offline acidophilus from the gates of dawn on 2004-04-07 06:15 [#01135504]
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and now they will find all that pr0n you've been saving on
your disk! :)


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-04-07 06:16 [#01135506]
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damn! and all the amateur poopsex video's i recorded

... and worse they got the password to my online bank
account thing 0_o
shit!


 

offline sneakattack on 2004-04-07 07:36 [#01135587]
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shiz, I had a sleugh of other suggestions, we probably could
have done a better job than the goons you took it to..


 


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