DISK Recovery Problem
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Don

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28,378 posts

314 months

Tuesday 15th February 2005
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Chaps,

Just had a hard disk failure on our domain controller. Turns out if had first stuffed our SMTP service (no email will get through to me) and then the boot sector.

A couple of restarts later the damn thing wouldn't boot.

We've shoved the drive into another machine and its accessible to "File Scavenger"...so we might be able to get some of the stuff off it...

Has anyone used any software that has got this sort of disk bootable again without losing data?

Needless to say our backups are older than we would have liked or I wouldn't be asking this question...

pdV6

16,442 posts

291 months

Tuesday 15th February 2005
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Sorry - no immediate help I'm afraid, but in a horse/door/bolt kind of moment I felt impelled to say "RAID on the servers!"

malman

2,258 posts

289 months

Tuesday 15th February 2005
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Ontrack or Vogon. Vogon is send off for report but ontrack do some DIY tools