okay heres the short version of the story:
My cousin has some EXTREMELY important files on her computer that she needs TOMORROW at 4pm ish. Naurally, these weren't backed up.
Deu to a long series of events, the filesystem has become corrupt and NTLDR needs to be replaced. Here is the easy solution:
1) boot off the XP installation CD
2) choose recovery console, login and run a "fixboot" and then "chkdsk /f"
3) profit
But of course, the easy solution doesn't work. The computer is a gay HP computer and apparently they decided to ditch the included CD to save on a whopping 12 cents, and just include a recovery partition so users can just blow everything away when something like this happens. I have no CD to boot off, and no floppy drive. ******. Oh well, i'll just go on to plan two!
1) go to other computer (a laptop), burn a bootable CD
2) manually replace NTLDR and run chkdsk /f
3) profit
BUUUUT here is another fine roadblock! I can't burn a cd on this laptop, mainly due to a lack of a CD burner. Lukily I have a third plan:
1) buy a jumpdrive
2) format jumpdrive to be formatable
3) add on all utilities I need
4) manually replace NTLDR
5) aquire copy of windows XPs chkdsk
6) run shkdsk /f
7) profit?
MORE PROBLEMS! NOTHING I have done can get this drive to be bootable! almost all utilities to automatically do this are for NT based OSes, and the one win98 one isn't working properly. (windows says that its a dos disk utility and stops it from writing to the disk, and DOS says it's a windows only application)
it is now approximately 5:30AM, I am going to go to sleep for 3 and a half hours. until then there is nothing to do but hope that somone can post something helpful for me
in case you want to know, the program I WAS using was called mkbt.
My cousin has some EXTREMELY important files on her computer that she needs TOMORROW at 4pm ish. Naurally, these weren't backed up.
Deu to a long series of events, the filesystem has become corrupt and NTLDR needs to be replaced. Here is the easy solution:
1) boot off the XP installation CD
2) choose recovery console, login and run a "fixboot" and then "chkdsk /f"
3) profit
But of course, the easy solution doesn't work. The computer is a gay HP computer and apparently they decided to ditch the included CD to save on a whopping 12 cents, and just include a recovery partition so users can just blow everything away when something like this happens. I have no CD to boot off, and no floppy drive. ******. Oh well, i'll just go on to plan two!
1) go to other computer (a laptop), burn a bootable CD
2) manually replace NTLDR and run chkdsk /f
3) profit
BUUUUT here is another fine roadblock! I can't burn a cd on this laptop, mainly due to a lack of a CD burner. Lukily I have a third plan:
1) buy a jumpdrive
2) format jumpdrive to be formatable
3) add on all utilities I need
4) manually replace NTLDR
5) aquire copy of windows XPs chkdsk
6) run shkdsk /f
7) profit?
MORE PROBLEMS! NOTHING I have done can get this drive to be bootable! almost all utilities to automatically do this are for NT based OSes, and the one win98 one isn't working properly. (windows says that its a dos disk utility and stops it from writing to the disk, and DOS says it's a windows only application)
it is now approximately 5:30AM, I am going to go to sleep for 3 and a half hours. until then there is nothing to do but hope that somone can post something helpful for me
in case you want to know, the program I WAS using was called mkbt.