WoW broke my Win2k

[boaman]

World of Warcraft crashed on my Win2k box earlier and now Win2k blue screens during boot-up. It gets past the point where you press F8 for Safe Mode before it blue screens. Also, it won't boot in Safe Mode either.

I removed the hard drive, put it in an external USB case and connected it to another Win2k box. As an external drive:

• Win2k Computer Management -> Disk Management sees the drive as "Healthy (Active)" and the single partition but doesn't recognize the NTFS

• I ran TestDisk and it sees the disk partition and NTFS. It also says the MBR and recovery MBR match.

• PC Inspector sees the drive and I am able to copy files to a backup.

:brokenheart:

Can I repair the drive? It seems like there is something wrong with the partition since Win2k cannot see the drive as an external drive in Windows Explorer.

Thanks for any help.

 

[astartz]

What does the blue screen say?
what error codes?

 

[Smilin]

that's probably your "boot sector" and "backup boot sector" match, not MBR.

Anywhoo... do a chkdsk /r on the volume. When complete see if you can read the filesystem. If so, pop drive back in and try.

If blue screens again, post the STOP and parameters.