I am trying to use Norton Ghost 2002 to savage data from my broken ATA 20GB Hard disk on a Dell Dimension 4100 PC at home, which is getting sicker and sicker (I have used Recovery Console's CHKDSK, Partition Magic 8.0, WinNT4/Win2000 Pro install disks to try to sort out the
partitions, etc, but no joy, with what appears to be physical errors). Ironically, it started off with me configuring rules on NORTON Personal Firewall 2003, when my PC suddently restarts and become unbootable, etc.
Anyway, Norton Ghost 2002 (from DOS boot disk, running ghostpe.exe) starts off saying "NTFS Log file not flushed, please restart NT..." A goolge search suggested I could use the -NTL switch for Norton ghost 6.0 (which is not listed in my Ghost 2003 user guide!!). Not too sure
whether this matters or not. But my biggest problem is
1) When I do Local->Partition->To Image, it complains that errors found in NTFS Volume, I could
- Continue
- Copy Sector by Sector
I tried both, but when after the warning "You will need 4 CDRs, are you sure?", the bottom left handside task bar indicates that it is checking NTFS Volume (It did that for >5 hours, no progress whatsoever, and if I restart the PC, ghost complained that the same CDR is not blank, although visually I can't see anything being written to the disc)
I checked out
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Using the -NTIC switch (i.e. ghostpe -ntic), I though I could by pass NTFS check, but what could I do to savage what I have got left on my Partition. Doing a CHKDSK d: /r /f (my NT is on D:, an extended partition, C:\ is only 48MB, containing MSDOS-6.22) from Win2K Bootable
CD's recovery console, my latest attempt is that it stalled on 75% saying my disk contains unrecoverable problems (it completed up to 100% 2 days ago!)..
Basically, I just want my "\Documents And Settings\My Documents" and "\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\Outlook\*.pst"
back. At the recovery console, I could at least CD into those folders, but of course, the files being so massive, I can't copy it anywhere!
So, my questions are
1) Any switches I could use to by pass checking from Ghost, just wanting the good stuff back that is left! (e.g. Hard disk access mode switches, etc.)
2) Any way I could use my CDRW from Recovery Console. Ghost seems to be loading some SYS files to do with CDRW, so I wonder if I could use that from the recovery console some how?? Any one know how to use them?? I won't min short file name for my *.pst files, but for "My Documents",
short filename is pretty much useless to me!
3) I have tried a freeware called Winternals NTRecover (Trial Version), which apparently allow data copying using serial cables, but
3.1) It doesn't seem to connect when I install NTRecover host on NT4 laptop, client from bootdisk on broken PC
3.2) I suspect it doesn't cope with NTFS5 (which Win2K uses)
4) Should I use the Win2K Recovery Console command FIXBOOT or FIXMBR or would that make my HDD even sicker?? Note, I got pass the colour screen saying "windows 2000" and then a blue screen with STOP ..........
NTOSKRNL.EXE appears. This is after several iterations of CHKDSK, etc. (before I couldn't even get passed the Black Starting Windows 2000 screen- SYSTEM and SYSTEM.ALT appears to have been corrupted and I replaced them from the standard copy from the 'Repair' directory)
(Does the fact that I got pass the OS Chooser suggested that my MBR and boot sector is OK??)
partitions, etc, but no joy, with what appears to be physical errors). Ironically, it started off with me configuring rules on NORTON Personal Firewall 2003, when my PC suddently restarts and become unbootable, etc.
Anyway, Norton Ghost 2002 (from DOS boot disk, running ghostpe.exe) starts off saying "NTFS Log file not flushed, please restart NT..." A goolge search suggested I could use the -NTL switch for Norton ghost 6.0 (which is not listed in my Ghost 2003 user guide!!). Not too sure
whether this matters or not. But my biggest problem is
1) When I do Local->Partition->To Image, it complains that errors found in NTFS Volume, I could
- Continue
- Copy Sector by Sector
I tried both, but when after the warning "You will need 4 CDRs, are you sure?", the bottom left handside task bar indicates that it is checking NTFS Volume (It did that for >5 hours, no progress whatsoever, and if I restart the PC, ghost complained that the same CDR is not blank, although visually I can't see anything being written to the disc)
I checked out
<
Using the -NTIC switch (i.e. ghostpe -ntic), I though I could by pass NTFS check, but what could I do to savage what I have got left on my Partition. Doing a CHKDSK d: /r /f (my NT is on D:, an extended partition, C:\ is only 48MB, containing MSDOS-6.22) from Win2K Bootable
CD's recovery console, my latest attempt is that it stalled on 75% saying my disk contains unrecoverable problems (it completed up to 100% 2 days ago!)..
Basically, I just want my "\Documents And Settings\My Documents" and "\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\Outlook\*.pst"
back. At the recovery console, I could at least CD into those folders, but of course, the files being so massive, I can't copy it anywhere!
So, my questions are
1) Any switches I could use to by pass checking from Ghost, just wanting the good stuff back that is left! (e.g. Hard disk access mode switches, etc.)
2) Any way I could use my CDRW from Recovery Console. Ghost seems to be loading some SYS files to do with CDRW, so I wonder if I could use that from the recovery console some how?? Any one know how to use them?? I won't min short file name for my *.pst files, but for "My Documents",
short filename is pretty much useless to me!
3) I have tried a freeware called Winternals NTRecover (Trial Version), which apparently allow data copying using serial cables, but
3.1) It doesn't seem to connect when I install NTRecover host on NT4 laptop, client from bootdisk on broken PC
3.2) I suspect it doesn't cope with NTFS5 (which Win2K uses)
4) Should I use the Win2K Recovery Console command FIXBOOT or FIXMBR or would that make my HDD even sicker?? Note, I got pass the colour screen saying "windows 2000" and then a blue screen with STOP ..........
NTOSKRNL.EXE appears. This is after several iterations of CHKDSK, etc. (before I couldn't even get passed the Black Starting Windows 2000 screen- SYSTEM and SYSTEM.ALT appears to have been corrupted and I replaced them from the standard copy from the 'Repair' directory)
(Does the fact that I got pass the OS Chooser suggested that my MBR and boot sector is OK??)