- Jan 12, 2003
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Someone gave me their laptop to look at, which contains one very, VERY important spreadsheet; it locks at startup and the IT people gaves us the ol' "Yea, you need a new hard drive" nonsense. I can boot it with a startup disk and see everything in the C:\ root...but no <winnt> directory. In fact, there is only a <temp> and <dat> directory. I <cd> to <temp> and there are 3 files/directory looking things listed
..."1" and "2" and a "3" listed..no extensions...can't change directory to them...nothing. If I type <type 1> it lists all the gems I am looking for...all files I would expect to see in a windows directory...documents and settings...winnt directory stuff...my documents....etc, etc...all shows the path to each, but I can't figure out how to get in these...NTFS file system stuff?
In short, is there a way to get into these 1, 2, 3 directory looking partitions? It boots to the WIN NT splash screen and just locks....can't boot to safe mode...locks there, too....so there is some windows junk on the hard drive....suspect in these partitions...how can I get in?
In short, is there a way to get into these 1, 2, 3 directory looking partitions? It boots to the WIN NT splash screen and just locks....can't boot to safe mode...locks there, too....so there is some windows junk on the hard drive....suspect in these partitions...how can I get in?