Hard Drive Failure

[lbyler]

I have a Western Digital 40 Gig hdd that no longer boots to windows.. only boots to a command prompt in protected mode...

I can do a Dos dir and see the files that I want to recover..

Efforts to run the System recovery CD fail as I cannot write system files to the Hard Drive. Efforts to run scanreg /restore fail as the HIMEM.SYS file does not load in Dos protected mode...I need useful information on how to safely recover a 19 meg file without spending a lot of time chasing dead ends..

I'm planning to install a new drive and set it as the master and connect the bad drive as the slave and then use a dos copy command to pull the data to the new drive..

any ideas or advice?

 

[qzq]

Try erd commander. Boot up from the CD and restore the system files that are missing. It will also fix your registry if there is a problem. Call them and ask to see if they will send you an eval or maybe you can download it.

Good luck.