MAJOR Hard Disk Crisis

[stebesplace]

Ok. I have a 60 gig hard drive. It is partitioned with half NTFS format, and the other half fat32. Now, in the same computer I have a second hard drive, 20 gig, fat32. The 60 gig is primary, and the 20 gig is slave. Now i did some work on my LOGONUI.EXE in my c:\windows\system32, to replace it with a different logon screen. Now my computer gets to the logon screen, but just before it does, it restarts itself every time. No matter what way I get into, via safe mode etc. . .

I need the files that are on this hard drive, and it will work once I can replace the file mentioned above correctly. The thing is, I can't seem to be able to access the hard drive with ntfs because either its NTFS or because it is just not able to be accesses. I don't know.

I have tried many ways to get access to it, but to no avail. I need to know how I can access this ntfs portion of the drive, so that i can replace the bad file with the good one to boot properly. Any thoughts?

I am suffering here. . .

Thank you,


-Steve

 

[zephyrprime]

You need to either use the windows recovery console on your windows install cd or put the hard drive in second working computer with Windows NT/XP on it.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yep, one of the reasons why I don't use NTFS for a boot partition.

Didn't you make a Ghost / Drive image backup before playing with a key system file? Just restore that.

If not, you can always make the 20 GB drive master for awhile, install W2K / XP to it, fix the file on what's temporarily your D: drive, then swap them back.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Grab a copy of that file from a friend or something and put it on a floppy disk. If it's WindowsXP, boot off the CD and go to the recovery console. Just use simple DOS commands to copy the file from the floppy onto the HDD and hope it works.