In my raid i used striping (0):| between 2 drives. I thought they would never fail 
, but I'll get increased performance. I got performance... for a while. One of the drives has failed, and I need to recover as much data as possible. I really, do! The boot sector and MBR are fine, the system goes past the white "system identification and loading" screen, gets all the blue squares filled, and then bluescreens with a message "... could not load windows registry hive (file) SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software"
I went trough the standard road of recovery, loaded from floppies and went to "Console" method. I can see the above Software file perfectly intact. The CHKDSK hung on 2%, so I could not do any repair that way. I tried going the "Repair" route but it needs the Emergency Repair Disk, which I, obviously, do not have.:|
People! Please if you know how to recover the registry hive or any other recovery utility for my situation, do let me know. I am desperate! It is a database server and a small development web server. Both drives work, not all the time though So, I need to make it boot only once, so I can dump the databases and backup some work-in-progress files.
Very Important!
Thanks ahead!
BTW, the OS is Win 2000 Adv. Server.
, but I'll get increased performance. I got performance... for a while. One of the drives has failed, and I need to recover as much data as possible. I really, do! The boot sector and MBR are fine, the system goes past the white "system identification and loading" screen, gets all the blue squares filled, and then bluescreens with a message "... could not load windows registry hive (file) SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software"I went trough the standard road of recovery, loaded from floppies and went to "Console" method. I can see the above Software file perfectly intact. The CHKDSK hung on 2%, so I could not do any repair that way. I tried going the "Repair" route but it needs the Emergency Repair Disk, which I, obviously, do not have.:|
People! Please if you know how to recover the registry hive or any other recovery utility for my situation, do let me know. I am desperate! It is a database server and a small development web server. Both drives work, not all the time though
So, I need to make it boot only once, so I can dump the databases and backup some work-in-progress files. Very Important!
Thanks ahead!
BTW, the OS is Win 2000 Adv. Server.
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