TSGL: TSGL Compaq wont boot

[H Davis]

Don,

Do you think that when scandisk "rescued" the files it also converted 
them to FAT. After all, that's all it knows. NTFS wasn't around when 
this version of scandisk was written. If so, the chk files should be in 
FAT format but, of course, not necessarily intelligible.

H Davis

Don Penlington wrote:
> 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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