Lost NTFS partition information...

I was trying to set up a dual boot after a crash and Win98 wiped out the
partition info for my NTFS storage drives.

I used some program off the net, I don't remember it's name..just that it
easily found all my files and wanted me to pay 99 dollars to use the program
and 5 bux per gig to fix the issue. That's no good.

Can someone steer me in the right direction? All the files are still on the
drives, but they have lost the NTFS file structure files...whatever they are
called.

Thanks in advance.

anyone?
"mrbisco" wrote in message
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I was trying to set up a dual boot after a crash and Win98 wiped out the
partition info for my NTFS storage drives.

I used some program off the net, I don't remember it's name..just that it
easily found all my files and wanted me to pay 99 dollars to use the
program and 5 bux per gig to fix the issue. That's no good.

Can someone steer me in the right direction? All the files are still on
the drives, but they have lost the NTFS file structure files...whatever
they are called.

Thanks in advance.

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 05:54:14 GMT, "mrbisco" wrote:

I was trying to set up a dual boot after a crash and Win98 wiped out the
partition info for my NTFS storage drives.

I used some program off the net, I don't remember it's name..just that it
easily found all my files and wanted me to pay 99 dollars to use the program
and 5 bux per gig to fix the issue. That's no good.

Can someone steer me in the right direction? All the files are still on the
drives, but they have lost the NTFS file structure files...whatever they are
called.

Thanks in advance.

Depending on what the problem is, you may find that booting into the
recovery console with the XP CD (assuming you were using Windows XP)
and running chkdsk.

I had a problem last year where the ntfs mft was corrupted, and
rebooting into the recovery console and running chkdsk fixed the
problem.

http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/RecoveringXP.htm#console
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654

If you are still having troubles, post a reply.

Hope this helps a little.

Dazz