Dell Inspiron 6000, Win XP Sp2
I did a shutdown and the system crashed and went to black screen on boot. Ran Recovery Console Chkdsk /r... worked up to 75% and stopped. Now I get a one or more unrecoverable errors on volume when I run Chkdsk and can't even get a DIR command to work on c:>
I ran fixmbr and fixboot with no success. When I do a MAP command, it shows the 3 disk partitions and I notice that partition 1 is Fat 16, Partition 2 is labeled UNKOWN and Partition 3 is Fat 32. It appears that XP doesn't understand or has lost the information that tells it that the c: drive is NTFS.
The hard drive shows up in BIOS and I am able to run Dell Diagnostics from the F12 command fine. I have run extended tests on the entire system and no errors are reported.
I am about to call Dell expired warranty service and waste some $$$ to have them tell me the drive is shot and I need to replace it. I really need to salvage this data if possible. I have ordered an IDE to USB cable kit to try and slave it to another XP machine so I can get the data. Ideally, I would think there would be away for me to reconstruct the boot record to correcly identify the drive as NTFS format without erasing my data.
I was going to try a Windows XP reinstall from the recovery CD but have a feeling it will fail since XP can't identify the file system type as NTFS. Also, I am not sure whether that will delete all of my data.
Any help would be appreciated...
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