Hi. I have determined that the system disk for an emachine has lost it's NTFS file system designation somehow.
I feel certain that the data itself is intact on there.
Now. short of bringing it to a recovery specialist, do I have any options?
I'm okay spending a few (maybe a hundred fiftyish) bucks to get a product that would work.
2007-12-02 15:13:56 · 3 answers · asked by Liz 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Okay, yes all of that is true. I have in fact gone through all of the suggestions seen up to now. I have hooked it up via IDE cable to another system. Through a USB adapter to a laptop. Run it in to my Ubuntu box, lit black candles and danced incantaions over it, all that.
The reason I think it is a file system error, is that any and all of the those systems, can recognise that it IS in fact a formatted 37 gigabtye partition, but none of them can t5ell me what kind of partition it is. Somewhere in the partition table, on that disk is an error.
My next move will be to try parttition magic to drop a new ntfs designation on the key manually, but man.. that's a crap shoot.
2007-12-02 15:26:38 · update #1
http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm
2007-12-02 17:03:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
please explain how you came to this conclusion ... file systems don't just "drop off" ... files get corrupt ... dll's go missing ... as do a miriade of other files .... what exactly has happened and what is the error message????
You may find that by removing the drive ... piggybacking it to another computer as a slave drive ... and running a chkdsk will sort it all out
2007-12-02 23:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by deadkelly_1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you're FAT.................................doesn't exist anymore?
if it has 2000/XP, it should be backwards compatible
2007-12-02 23:19:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋