win2k corrupted-shared file access probem

X posted as unsure who can help in the festive period

Ok, I had a Win2k home setup was going to upgrade over xmas but didnt, now
regret it. For some reason the whole Winnnt dir came corrupted along with
others, It was the "load needed dlls for kernel" error on startup and I
couldnt repair it at all, I installed another copy of Win2k to try and
acccess folders but no good.

Ive now set the SATA drive as a slave on a XP machine to hopefully try and
recover my many files I had on this disk.

The main Dir's I need to recover was a couple of shared folders, I cannot
get these to show up though, maybe some security reason im unaware of ?

The hard disk stated there is 90gb used of the 160 total, but only about
20gb of this is showing. What can I use to try and recover the folders that
are not showing. Any help much appreciated.

I have done everything I could to try and boot from the hard disk from the
original Windows but it is too badly corrupted, so it seems not an option.
If i can just access these folders ill be over the moon

TIA

Andy

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "LaptopCity - Andy
Usher" <(E-Mail Removed)> opened his gob and said:

>The hard disk stated there is 90gb used of the 160 total, but only about
>20gb of this is showing. What can I use to try and recover the folders that
>are not showing. Any help much appreciated.

Try a Linux distro that runs from the CD/DVD.

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

In MsgID<(E-Mail Removed)> on Thu, 28 Dec 2006
22:27:21 +0000, in uk.comp.home-networking, 'Dr Teeth' wrote:

>I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "LaptopCity - Andy
>Usher" <(E-Mail Removed)> opened his gob and said:
>
>>The hard disk stated there is 90gb used of the 160 total, but only about
>>20gb of this is showing. What can I use to try and recover the folders that
>>are not showing. Any help much appreciated.
>
>Try a Linux distro that runs from the CD/DVD.

Alternately, if you prefer to stick with windows, once you've installed XP
(or whichever version) on a *different* drive, have a look at

http://www.dtidata.com/data_recovery_software.htm

I think the 'Dart XP data recovery' is exclusively for NTFS formatted
disks and the next one down is for FAT32, bicbw. Anyhow, they both have a
'try before you buy' demo which will show you what they can recover.

Make sure you install them on a different partition (preferably a
different disk, especially if you suspect hardware failure as any activity
is then an additional data risk) to the one containing your lost files.

The prices seem reasonable to me, especially given that you can test them
to see what they'll recover, before you pay a penny.

Good luck. I've lost unbacked-up drives a couple of times in my life [1],
it's a most disheartening experience. I live around my machines, so it's
like losing a bit of 'wetware' memory.

Seriously; don't so much as touch the damaged drive with any data before
you try the recovery techniques. If the mapping's broken you can easily
overwrite the file contents.

[1] More fool me. Take this as a learning experience, spare harddrives are
cheap, timetravel isn't. (-:

Dave J.
--
Support a referendum on UK ID cards before they are
inflicted at stupendous cost for negligible reward.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IDreferendum/