Crashed, fixbooted and fixmbr:ed and copied files... Ahh help! 1

[Valier]

Hi

I had this crash on a win xp Home computer.
It wouldn´t boot and i found that many people had had the same problem, so I read lots of posts in lots of forums.
Probably the disk is somewhat broken.
I could read the files when booting from floppy.
From the start I didn´t worry too much about being able to fix the data.

Data belongs to a customer, though, and now I´m in a bad position.

Sadly enough I ran fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console. Evene sadlier I copied a new ntdtect and a new ntldr to the disk. Bad!
I thought this was non-destructive. Wrong!

Now the only files I can see on my C: drive are the two mentioned copied ntdtect and ntldr.

Can I do something to recover the stuff?

Mike

Stockholm, Sweden

 

[Crowley16]

hmm, not exactly sure what fixboot and fixmbr does but, I think, ntdtect and ntldr are only bootup files, so replacing those shouldn't delete your other files.

a few things you can do...

firstly, get another computer, and plug this hdd into it as a slave drive, under no circumstances install/copy/move/or any other i/o operations to this hdd.

once it loads the hdd properly, you should be able to see your files.

If you still don't see your files, but you see the hdd as empty, then you need to try a recovery program, there's quite a lot available, such as undelete/getDataBack... but these will all cost some money...

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Procrastinate Now!

 

[linney]

Have a look at some of the options outlined in this thread.

MPR.dll not found
thread779-971200


How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP (Q314079)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q314/0/79.asp

Q305595 - HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q305/5/95.asp

A Discussion About the Bootcfg Command and Its Uses

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q291/9/80.asp

From the Recovery Console you could also try ChkDsk /r .

Data recovery.

http://www.restorer2000.com

http://www.runtime.org/hints.htm

Try here too.

-General Data Recovery discussion Forum (4103 members)
Forum528

Users recycle bin
thread779-744465

 

[Valier]

Thanks to all.

I put the disk in another computer and recovered the data with GetDataBack.
This is a very competent program.
Now I can reinstall OS and copy necessary files back in place.
I will never, never, never play cool again and try to do stuff without backing data up.

Mike, Stockholm, North Pole, 8 below zero C.