I forgot to periodically purge the system disk on my W2k workstation, which eventually filled up with motion detected images uploaded by a network camera via FTP. Result: the system cannot boot. I tried to get in with a Linux CD to delete some files, but I cannot modify the file structure. Suggestions? TIA
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System disk full: cannot boot
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electronicsfreak
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Try slaving the drive to another computer and pulling some data off that way.
rodrunner79
IS-IT--Management
electronicsfreak's suggestion will do the job. However, if you do not have a second PC then you can try booting from DOS (that is if W2K is installed over FAT32) and delete files from there. If running on NTFS, google a NTFS reader and find a utility that you can access your drive from.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
mattKnight
Programmer
Repair Console would be my first starting point
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I'm back. I've built BartPE and booted the system from CD. (great tool, btw, though I'd like a few more "management" tools, like disk administrator).
The C drive appears in the A43 "file manager". However, when I right-click/properties, it reports:
File System: RAW (instead of NTFS)
Capacity: 0 bytes (instead of 60 GB)
When I try to do a "dir c:" or a "c:" from the command prompt, I get "Error performing inpage operation".
It looks like the NTFS structure is gone, maybe the partition table got corrupted when the disk got full.
I'm slowly resigning myself to rebuild the system, but if any of you has any idea recovering the disk, please let me know. Thanks,
The C drive appears in the A43 "file manager". However, when I right-click/properties, it reports:
File System: RAW (instead of NTFS)
Capacity: 0 bytes (instead of 60 GB)
When I try to do a "dir c:" or a "c:" from the command prompt, I get "Error performing inpage operation".
It looks like the NTFS structure is gone, maybe the partition table got corrupted when the disk got full.
I'm slowly resigning myself to rebuild the system, but if any of you has any idea recovering the disk, please let me know. Thanks,
Have you tried running chkdsk (from Bart - either from command prompt or the option in Bart) - though I suspect it will say the same.
I wonder if you did some damage at this point.
I'd also run drive manufacturer's diagnostic on the drive in case its failing.
If you want to try to recover data from the disk (assuming chkdsk can't fix it), you'll need to slave it in another system and run a data recovery app (like getdataback).
I wonder if you did some damage at this point.
I'd also run drive manufacturer's diagnostic on the drive in case its failing.
If you want to try to recover data from the disk (assuming chkdsk can't fix it), you'll need to slave it in another system and run a data recovery app (like getdataback).
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