Was I too harsh on Ontrack (data recovery) ????

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

^^^^

 

i was using the built in tools

 

Computer Management (control panel / admin tools / computer management)

 

that is was screwed up.

[Alien 1]

If all it did was assign wrong drive letters & it wouldn't boot, surely you could still read the drive? Couldn't you have just put it in another system [as a secondary drive] to read the data off?

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

nope

 

trust me i spent 2 days trying everything else.

 

it seemed to do more then just not assign it a drive letter - it was just after i hit ok to assign it a drive letter that the error came up

 

windows has encounter an error blah blah blah

 

 

then i reboot the comp - as far as that system is conerned - the drive is not formated - okay, first thing i did was try to assign it a drive letter - said nope, no can do, not formated.

 

took it out and tried it in 3 other systems - and all said the drive was not formated

[Alien 1]

Was it formatted NTFS? I've found on several occasions that the old FDISK /MBR command [from booting from an old 98se boot floppy] has got me out of some rather sticky situations, but I don't know if it would be any use with NTFS being used, as I don't use NTFS.

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

yup

 

was ntfs - i tried several DOS NTFS programs and none of them would read the drive. -

 

i tried various demo's of programs that work in dos - even one that emualtes windows to read any drive and no go!

 

so i finally got that program above and BA< got all my stuff - recently formated the drive and it works fine

 

so thank you MS!!