Boot Disks

[Peter Detheridge]

I recently had an issue with Windows XP which required to scramble for my
boot disks. To my dismay when I booted to a DOS prompt, I could not see any
of my disk partitions and therefore impossible to use recovery material
stored on these partitions.
What if anything can I add to my boot disks that will enable me to see my
hard drive partions in future?
I eventually got around the problem by restoring a Ghost image of the
c:drive......
Thanks

Peter

[Randy]

Have a look at the products sold by http://www.winternals.com.

There are also some floppy-disk distributions of Linux that will allow you
to access NTFS drives.
Check http://www.bootdisk.com for some of those. I used one to access and
change the password on a WinNT 4 Server I'd locked myself out of.

"Peter Detheridge" > wrote in message
...
> I recently had an issue with Windows XP which required to scramble for my
> boot disks. To my dismay when I booted to a DOS prompt, I could not see
any
> of my disk partitions and therefore impossible to use recovery material
> stored on these partitions.
> What if anything can I add to my boot disks that will enable me to see my
> hard drive partions in future?
> I eventually got around the problem by restoring a Ghost image of the
> c:drive......
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
>

[Harry Ohrn]

This freeware app will do it for you
http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10126096.html

--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
www.webtree.ca/newlife/


"Peter Detheridge" > wrote in message
...
> I recently had an issue with Windows XP which required to scramble for my
> boot disks. To my dismay when I booted to a DOS prompt, I could not see
any
> of my disk partitions and therefore impossible to use recovery material
> stored on these partitions.
> What if anything can I add to my boot disks that will enable me to see my
> hard drive partions in future?
> I eventually got around the problem by restoring a Ghost image of the
> c:drive......
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
>

[Peter Detheridge]

Many thanks
"Harry Ohrn" > wrote in message
...
> This freeware app will do it for you
> http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10126096.html
>
> --
>
> Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
> www.webtree.ca/newlife/
>
>
> "Peter Detheridge" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I recently had an issue with Windows XP which required to scramble for
my
> > boot disks. To my dismay when I booted to a DOS prompt, I could not see
> any
> > of my disk partitions and therefore impossible to use recovery material
> > stored on these partitions.
> > What if anything can I add to my boot disks that will enable me to see
my
> > hard drive partions in future?
> > I eventually got around the problem by restoring a Ghost image of the
> > c:drive......
> > Thanks
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
>
>