TSGL: Compaq wont boot

[Ron Grant]

Thanks to all of you who have helped me in understanding what my options are 
in this situation.
My wife and I have learned a couple of valuable lessons here. To back up 
more often, and when I have a no boot problem don't rush into a fix when I 
have not explored all my options first. I made the fatal mistake by running 
a FAT 32 scandisk thinking that would "fix" something.



I have moved on and reinstalled the system, losing the movie file.  It will 
just have to be redone.

Again Thanks to all for your help!

Ron












----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Penlington" Subject: Re: TSGL: TSGL Compaq wont boot


> Ron wrote:
>>I still have around 8000 files named File0001.chk and counts to the
>>File7995.chk which are recovered file fragments files.
>>
>>Soooo, unless someone has a magic wand I will call this a lesson learned 
>>and
>>move on to do a reformat and reinstall the system.>>
>
>
> My guess is that the W98 scandisk is set to read a FAT32 system, whereas 
> XP
> is normally (but not necessarily) placed on a NTFS system.  To any W98
> utility, the NTFS files look like a jumble and scandisk has therefore 
> tried
> to "rescue" them. With luck, this might only be a renaming, and it's
> possible that they may in fact still be intact, though of course you can't
> see them with any dos-reading utility. Dos cannot read NTFS without
> specialised (read expensive) software.
>
> See if you can download, or beg borrow or steal, a copy of the "BartCE
> emergency startup disk".  This is an emergency CD designed to read XP in
> situations like yours.  It loads a cutdown version of XP straight off its
> own disk, so that it is not in any way dependant on your installed
> version.  The disk also has a rudimentary file management utility by which
> you can read, execute, move and copy files to another partition or an
> external source. You can even run System Restore off it, as long as your
> installed version of XP isn't too hosed.
>
> It should do what you want, provided your NTFS files have not been too
> corrupted.
>
> You will, of course, have to download and then burn the BartCE disk
> yourself, unless you happen to have one or can obtain one.  I believe
> ready-made ones come up on Ebay occasionally.  It is not difficult to make
> one---you download the files and then follow the instructions to burn a
> boot disk. Just google for BartCE.
>
> I believe there are special utilities which will try to re-combine CHK
> files where possible once you have saved them, but I'm not familiar with
> these. You could try
>
>  CHK-Mate:
> http://www.majorgeeks.com/CHK-Mate_d4110.html  or
>
> Flobo CHK-Identifier (there might be a trial version):
> http://www.floborecoverysoft.com/
>
> Don Penlington
>
>
>
>
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