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HELP! Win2K. Complicated issues

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aceO07

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To begin, it's a laptop running Win2K Pro. It was having issues with invalid boot.ini problems, so I tried replacing it and editing it while booting w/ win98 diskette. Didn't make any major changes to the file. It looks the same as the other Win2k machine. That didn't work.

So I tried using Windows 2K CD and went into recovery console. I thought maybe I could try the "fixboot" command. It did something and when I rebooted, I didn't get the same error but instead got the NTLDR error. I rebooted w/ win98 disk and discovered that my C: drive is now empty!! only 9MB of free space though. The drive is about 20GB. I checked with fdisk and the partition is all full except that 9MB of space which I'm seeing. However I can't see the files!!

Any ideas? HELP! It's not personal files, it's work files.
 
Ignore the systemroot question, unless it is important to my situation.

I'm assuming that the files still exist.. there's just something that's preventing me from listing the files. There is huge chuck of space missing and only about 9MB of free space on the ~19GB partition. Is there a way to fix this?

I would have never thought the Fixboot command in the win2k recovery console was this bad!!
 
Thanks, I'll give it a look if I have some time. I've actually solved my problem. Some bad files in the end, but the partition is back. 🙂

Have to buy Partition Table Doctor though..
 
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