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Title: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: Abou27 on April 14, 2006, 05:32:52 PM

Hi there,

Buggered up my PC 19g hardddrive's bootblock (I think..).  No second PC to put it into.  Ghost says it didn't create my last backup image (handy).  Plugged into my A4000 running 3.9 and it appears in hdtoolbox.  Anyone know if I would be able to access the files on it via CrossDOS or similar and could anyone suggest a suitable mountlist?

Cheers.

Edit: XP installed on drive
 ;-)

Title: Re: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: amigagr on April 14, 2006, 05:41:58 PM

if it's formated with ntfs no it's useless. even linux can't do it right... for fat32 and fat disk better use fat 95 (http://uk.aminet.net/disk/misc/fat95.lha)

Title: Re: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: darule on April 14, 2006, 05:43:15 PM

I would try some regular rescue tools like Ontrack's Easy Recovery. I wouldn't plug it in an Amiga to recover files.

Just a word of caution: Don't mess to much. If it's really really important to recover you should send your disk to a specialist like OnTrack. Costs a lot of money though ;)

Title: Re: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: Abou27 on April 14, 2006, 06:16:03 PM

Yeah, good point, it's NTFS so no go.  I think I better slow down and think about what I'm doing before I get myself into more trouble... :-)

Title: Re: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: zipper on April 14, 2006, 09:14:10 PM

With this you may be able to read NTFS, it's beta still.


http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~mszyprow/progs/ntfilesystem/ntfs_0.5.lha

Title: Re: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: tonyvdb on April 14, 2006, 09:58:08 PM

Another option is to get yourself another drive and do a clean reinstall of windowz on it. Then place the old drive in as the slave and take the data off of it that way.

Title: Re: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: Ohforf on April 16, 2006, 01:26:35 AM

I'd use the Windows XP Recovery Console,
the Commands FIXBOOT and FIXMBR can help.
 more Info (at Microsoft, of course) (http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B314058&x=3&y=14)

Good Luck !

Title: Re: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: Tomas on April 16, 2006, 02:47:21 AM

Impossible if it is formatted with NTFS, which is the most likely filesystem it is formated with.
Microsoft was never willing to give out info for their filesystem, so there is really no decent ntfs port avaliable for anything but windows. Linux have read supports now and some half decent experimental write support, but it is still very experimental and they say you can risk losing data if you use it with write support enabled.

I think you would have more luck if it was formatted in fat16 or 32 though, which is what win9x/me used.

But here is something similar to what others suggested: Get a bootable dos/win98 floppy disk with fdisk and type fdisk /mbr
This will recreate the bootblock"master boot record" on your hd. This has worked for me in the past when i managed to overwrite my mbr.

Title: Re: xp harddrive to amiga?
Post by: Merc on April 16, 2006, 02:49:59 AM

Look for a great utility called GetDataBack (it comes in NTFS and FAT versions).  It does a low level scan of the drive and can recover files even with the filesystem unreadable normally.

I used it to get data back (tm) from an 80 gig hard drive that crashed, and managed to get a lot of valuable stuff back.