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Hard Drive Partition Problem on laptop? How to recover a file in DOS?

I posted this question in operating systems, but still looking for suggestions.

...Windows 2000 Pro on someone's laptop...boots to the splash screen...sits there for 5 minutes...finally gives me the blue screen of death and an "inaccessible boot device" stop fault.

I can boot to DOS and play around...this is what FDISK returned:

............... Status..............Type
.....1............A...................NTFS.............6Gig.................80% of drive (where I think the windows crap with the file is)

C: 2...............................Pri Dos............1Gig.................20%




It seems the windows boot information and files are on that first partition without the drive letter...on the C: drive, if I go to the <temp> directory, there are 3 directory looking things with just numbers...no extentions, no <dir> brackets, just a number 1...3...and there was a 7, but I deleted it 🙂

If I type <type 1>, it will list all the files I am looking for....with their paths (i.e. C:/win/my documents/blah.blah)...but I think the bulk of the files I need are on that large 80% partition...and ideas, short of removing the drive, on how I can assign that partition a drive letter and get in that bad boy?
 
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