Frustrated Canadian w/ win2000Pro
Problem:
The computer system locks while loading win2000 Pro
What I need:
I just need the INFORMATION -> Customer did not backup her whole new web site design info is on the drive
Explaination:
The computer post normally, boots to black screen white bar -Fine, then switches the win2000 screen with the magical moving blue bar. The progress indicator then stops @ 3/4 of the way. The keyboard lights flash then turn off (NUM LOCK)
Testing:
I can't boot into safe mode. It freezes while loading Mup.sys
I can't boot to safe mode and command prompt same thing
I can't boot the machine with the hard drive set as a slave with a new OS install on seperate HDD. the computer hangs @ a black screen
I can't clone the drive ghost only picks up 2.3 gig out of 20 gig (Full) nothing but garbage files
Partition magic fines tonnes of errors then crashes. Can't dismount HDD is the first error. then tonnes of this block should be free blah blah blah
:mad:
If anybody has any ideas then please send them my way
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Thanks in advance
Re: Frustrated Canadian w/ win2000Pro
Quote:
Originally posted by LaSERCHiPs
Problem:
The computer system locks while loading win2000 Pro
I can't clone the drive ghost only picks up 2.3 gig out of 20 gig (Full) nothing but garbage files
Partition magic fines tonnes of errors then crashes. Can't dismount HDD is the first error. then tonnes of this block should be free blah blah blah
:mad:
Thanks in advance
Just to make sure, check its not viral
Try slaving the drive in a spare xp box see if you can read it that way.
Boot with the 2k cd go to repair console, run fixboot and fix mbr
if no joy still May I suggest spinrite - the hard drive is probably dying....
If you don't want to spend money on spinrite just yet, try booting with 2k cd and run chkdsk /r
Very good luck to you...