I have seemingly lost all the data on both of my hard drives.
My main drive is a 120gb western digital special edition with win2k sp3 on it paritioned as ntfs. Monday night after installing the fix to the RPC exploit I downloaded from a 3rd party site I rebooted and chkdsk started running and it deleted a few files and then said something about updating the USN journal. after rebooting when it was done windows started to load and then I got the BSOD error "Inaccessible Boot Device".
I tried rebooting, tried changing drive to different channel, tried default bios settings to no avail. I also tried reinstalling win2k on the same partition with no luck, it sees the ntfs partition but can't install to it saying it is either not formatted or damaged. When I boot into safe mode is shows it as loading/accessing some files so it appears it is able to partially access this drive but while loading win2k I get the same BSOD. I have tried booting into the recovery console or booting into a dos floppy with ntfs support and they are not able to read the drive, when I try the DIR command it is unable. I have tried runnning chkdsk from the recovery console and it hass found no errors.
I am really at a loss for what to do and I can't lose this data. I have many things on there that can't be replaced and I haven't backed up recently. I am considering taking it to a professional data recovery place but I just don't have any money, I am losing my job and need to save for college.
Now I have another drive, a 30 gig maxtor with win98 se on it(fat32) and I had been booting off it for a few days to look for solutions to this problem. Yesterday it suddenly stopped working as well. The only things I had done between using it last and it not working were: downloaded a few security updates since I hadn't used that 98 install in forever, booting to a dos floppy and runnning the western digital diagnostic check on my main drive, tried switching from one ide channel to another again and then I booted onto a bootable win2k sp3 cd and booted into dos with ntfs support from it and I noticed my D:\(primary maxtor parition) drive was now also damaged, I ran the DIR command and it showed one file taking up zero bytes named "PR BOLOG V"" or something like that and it showed 900 megs of free space which was what it had when it worked. The secondary parition on this drive is undamaged. I am really unsure what happened here, I can't think of anything I did to damage the partition, and this is atarting to make me think I have a boot sector virus or something.
I have tried getting help from http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/ because they had been very helpful when I had damaged and unreadable fat32 partitions in the past. But as of yet I have had no luck. There is some additional information on my forum post there: http://pub50.bravenet.com/forum/sho...id=124468&mode=
I am really in a funk right now, one hd crashes, find out I am getting fired, next hd crashes. I would really appreciate any help with repairing these paritions or recovering my data.
My main drive is a 120gb western digital special edition with win2k sp3 on it paritioned as ntfs. Monday night after installing the fix to the RPC exploit I downloaded from a 3rd party site I rebooted and chkdsk started running and it deleted a few files and then said something about updating the USN journal. after rebooting when it was done windows started to load and then I got the BSOD error "Inaccessible Boot Device".
I tried rebooting, tried changing drive to different channel, tried default bios settings to no avail. I also tried reinstalling win2k on the same partition with no luck, it sees the ntfs partition but can't install to it saying it is either not formatted or damaged. When I boot into safe mode is shows it as loading/accessing some files so it appears it is able to partially access this drive but while loading win2k I get the same BSOD. I have tried booting into the recovery console or booting into a dos floppy with ntfs support and they are not able to read the drive, when I try the DIR command it is unable. I have tried runnning chkdsk from the recovery console and it hass found no errors.
I am really at a loss for what to do and I can't lose this data. I have many things on there that can't be replaced and I haven't backed up recently. I am considering taking it to a professional data recovery place but I just don't have any money, I am losing my job and need to save for college.
Now I have another drive, a 30 gig maxtor with win98 se on it(fat32) and I had been booting off it for a few days to look for solutions to this problem. Yesterday it suddenly stopped working as well. The only things I had done between using it last and it not working were: downloaded a few security updates since I hadn't used that 98 install in forever, booting to a dos floppy and runnning the western digital diagnostic check on my main drive, tried switching from one ide channel to another again and then I booted onto a bootable win2k sp3 cd and booted into dos with ntfs support from it and I noticed my D:\(primary maxtor parition) drive was now also damaged, I ran the DIR command and it showed one file taking up zero bytes named "PR BOLOG V"" or something like that and it showed 900 megs of free space which was what it had when it worked. The secondary parition on this drive is undamaged. I am really unsure what happened here, I can't think of anything I did to damage the partition, and this is atarting to make me think I have a boot sector virus or something.
I have tried getting help from http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/ because they had been very helpful when I had damaged and unreadable fat32 partitions in the past. But as of yet I have had no luck. There is some additional information on my forum post there: http://pub50.bravenet.com/forum/sho...id=124468&mode=
I am really in a funk right now, one hd crashes, find out I am getting fired, next hd crashes. I would really appreciate any help with repairing these paritions or recovering my data.
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