Bad Crash

[Jeanne]

My husband was transferring large files from his laptop
to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy
was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he
rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a
blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to
do a SYS C:, but nothing happened. It is saying that "C"
does not exist. We tried again and got a "no operating
system found" error. There is a TON of important data on
this PC and we need to get into it. Some is backed up,
but not all. Is there anyone out there who has seen this
and can help? Thank you very much!

[Eric]

Boot from a bootable floppy disk (Preferably a WIN98 or
WIN95 boot disk) , without CDROM drivers. Type "C:" and
enter. Can you access drive?

If you don't have a boot disk, download the files from
http://www.bootdisk.com/.

If you can boot to the A: drive and then enter C: to
access the C:\ drive, enter dir /p at the C:\> prompt to
see if the files are still there.

If they're still there, I would try entering the command
fdisk /mbr to fix the master boot record, whichj might
have become corrupt.

You don't lose any data with that command. It would warn
you first if the data were wiped.

If that doesn't work, entering "no operating system found"
as is, in Google brings up plenty of links.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/


>-----Original Message-----
>My husband was transferring large files from his laptop
>to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy
>was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he
>rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a
>blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to
>do a SYS C:, but nothing happened. It is saying that "C"
>does not exist. We tried again and got a "no operating
>system found" error. There is a TON of important data on
>this PC and we need to get into it. Some is backed up,
>but not all. Is there anyone out there who has seen this
>and can help? Thank you very much!
>.
>

[Jeanne]

Thanks. What happens when you can get to the "C" drive?
>-----Original Message-----
>Boot from a bootable floppy disk (Preferably a WIN98 or
>WIN95 boot disk) , without CDROM drivers. Type "C:" and
>enter. Can you access drive?
>
>If you don't have a boot disk, download the files from
>http://www.bootdisk.com/.
>
>If you can boot to the A: drive and then enter C: to
>access the C:\ drive, enter dir /p at the C:\> prompt to
>see if the files are still there.
>
>If they're still there, I would try entering the command
>fdisk /mbr to fix the master boot record, whichj might
>have become corrupt.
>
>You don't lose any data with that command. It would warn
>you first if the data were wiped.
>
>If that doesn't work, entering "no operating system
found"
>as is, in Google brings up plenty of links.
>
>Eric,
>http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
>http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>My husband was transferring large files from his laptop
>>to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the
copy
>>was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he
>>rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a
>>blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried
to
>>do a SYS C:, but nothing happened. It is saying
that "C"
>>does not exist. We tried again and got a "no operating
>>system found" error. There is a TON of important data
on
>>this PC and we need to get into it. Some is backed up,
>>but not all. Is there anyone out there who has seen
this
>>and can help? Thank you very much!
>>.
>>
>.
>

[Jeanne]

I meant to say, what happens when you can not see the "C"
drive? Tried to do the sys c: command from the A prompt
from the boot up disk, but it does not recognize the
drive. Looked through FDISK and does not even see the
partition. Really concerned.

[Ron Martell]

"Jeanne" > wrote:

>I meant to say, what happens when you can not see the "C"
>drive? Tried to do the sys c: command from the A prompt
>from the boot up disk, but it does not recognize the
>drive. Looked through FDISK and does not even see the
>partition. Really concerned.

Download MBRWORK from the free software section of
http://www.bootitng.com and see if it can recover the partition for
you.

Read the documentation and heed the warnings.

Good luck.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[Don Phillipson]

"Jeanne" > wrote in message
...

> My husband was transferring large files from his laptop
> to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy
> was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he
> rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a
> blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to
> do a SYS C:, but nothing happened. It is saying that "C"
> does not exist. We tried again and got a "no operating
> system found" error. There is a TON of important data on
> this PC and we need to get into it. Some is backed up,

Task # 1 should be to put this hard drive into another
PC as Drive 2, and copy over everything you can find.
Then work on the copies rather than the original
hard drive (which may be permanently unusable.)
Because there was an operating system in the old
PC its C: ought to show as D: in the new PC.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[ixa]

happened to me....
on my 200GB drive..
Sorry but i lost all..ALL
nothing helped me...

i think it is some common problem with BIOS limitations...
i suppose u hava old PC with new 80GB HDD...and there is
problem...when you reach his limit (exmpl. 40Gb) HDD
crashes...

I am just interested did MBWORK program helped you...

Good luck