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9mm

Wed Nov 22 2006, 01:09PM

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My hard drive crapped out on me and the OS wouldn't load at all.
I spent 3 hours on the phone with a Dell tech, which ended with him recommending I format my drive.
I got a new hard drive
Set this ahead of the old one in the boot sequence.
I put windows on it
After this he old drive was listed in my computer. Is said it had O capacity and contained zero info and identified it as DFTS
When I swithed on the computer it list the drives as DFTS.
It then ran a diagnostic listing directorys it could read a long list of them.
I deleted the windows folder off my old one I think
Yesterday I failed to bypass this check and when I came back to ihad deleted some material.
I went into my computer and tried to access the drive and was able to for the first time in months.
I had multiple users on the PC.
These are all listed and can still be accessed except my account, The admin account.
It lists this as containing no information.
But it wont let me in, how do I retrieve the info

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Wed Nov 22 2006, 01:34PM

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There are a couple of options available. let's try this first: Reboot to Safe Mode

See Booting to Safe Mode

Log in to the "Administrator" account, the "Administrator password is usually blank.

THe "Administrator" account for Windows Home Edition and Media Center Edition is only accessible from Safe Mode.

Try to access your old profile on the old drive. If you can access the profile then move what ever you need to your new profile.

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9mm

Wed Nov 22 2006, 02:19PM

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Okay I logged in in safe mode. It allow me to open my folder and listed all the sub folders. When I tried to open any of these, I got the same message I was originally getting. Logging in safe mode using my new user name yielded exactly the same results.

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Wed Nov 22 2006, 02:40PM

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Download a copy of the Knoppix "Live CD" from http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

Using your favorite CD burning application create the CD from the ISO image; make sure to select 'disc at once' not 'track at once'', otherwise the CD won't create correctly.� Do not simply burn the ISO image to the CD this won't create the CD correctly.

Once you have the CD created, reboot your computer leaving the CD in the drive.� You may have to access your BIOS to make sure that the computer is set to boot from CD.

Once Knoppix has loaded you should be able to access the folder and copy what you need to CD using the K3b CD burning application. Knoppix supports NTFS in Read-Only it won't write to NTFS. If your file system is FAT32 then you can just copy your files directly between the 2 profiles.

[ Edited Wed Nov 22 2006, 02:42PM ]


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