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This sucks really bad!!

Discussion in 'Safety valve' started by Pop_Smith, Mar 4, 2005.

  1. haymarket

    haymarket Regular member

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    I use "Ontrack Easy Recovery Professional v.6.0" which is the best product I have found.

    I am a little intrigued - I know I have come in late on this, and I am here to learn how others approach problems, but it seems everyone has just assumed a virus has destrroyed the NTLDR record. There are lots of possible reasons for this as below, and I have had it happen to me in the past, due to a Power Cut (Outage)- no Virus involved at all. As I Ghost my machines and keep Data on Drive D, I just Ghost it back - no Virus.

    Reasons:

    1. Computer is booting from a non-bootable source. (Floppy in A Drive !!!)
    2. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
    3. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file. (Due to Power Cut etc)
    Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
    4. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
    5. New hard disk drive being added.
    6. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
    7. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
    8. Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable. (I have had that happen !)

    USB Keyboards can be a problem when booting and trying to press a key between Bios and OS starting.

    Anyway - seems like the hammer approach has been used - re-format - I would have taken the HD out and put it on the back of another PC to copy my data across - I know the Virus Risk - if it was a Virus which I am highly doubtful of.

    Anyway Try "Ontrack Easy Recovery Professional v.6.0" Good product.
     

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