hard disk data lost

[edmund1978]

I have reently had a win2000 pro pc go down, and the hard drive is now inaccessible. The hard drive was in two partitions, and now only the second (non bootable) partition is available. It has been tried on a running machine (also win2k) and still is inaccesible. Is there any software or procedure that may be able to resolve this?

 

[pbxman]

What filesystem is it? NTFS can only be read by another NTFS partition. Please let Tek-Tips members know their posts were helpful. Thanks!

Pbxman
Systems Administrator

 

[edmund1978]

have tried to read from ntfs system and still not readable

 

[tlcscousin]

Could try booting with the w2k cd in the drive and if the pc supports cd boot pick the option to repair previous installation.