I left my main desktop PC with its broken partition table and thus nothing more than a box in the corner last night and went to bed – See my post last night about the strange happenings on my Desktop PC.
This evening I have been attacking the system from any angle I can desperately trying at least to recover the data and at best get the system back up and running without a full format.
I have used the Ultimate Bootup CD for Windows which has an array of useful applications to try. It is rather slow to boot up off the CD but once loaded it gives you access to virus checkers, disk clones, ghost, sector by sector copy software and much more.
I used the partition tools on the drive with were able to search the drive and locate the old partitions and re-create the partition tables from that information.
I also ran the Western Digital Disk Test utility which proved that there was nothing wrong with the drive its self.
I then booted back into windows which was deathly slow but after 10 minutes (yes that was 10 minutes) it finally booted up and gave me the log in screen, and allowed me to enter my password but then stuck on that screen for a further 10 minutes before giving the blue screen of death.
So although things started off promising, they now look just as bad as they did last night.
Time for bed again.
I must change the time setting on my server, these blog post times are all out!
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