Issue at Boot (W2K)

[rioud]

Hi there,

I've made a terrible mistake the other day. I have a wireless keyboard which was not working properly on my PC. As I didn't know what the issue was, I plugged it on my Dell Latitude C600 (Win2K Pro) and updated the keyboard drivers.
I restarted it but it hang after the Windows 2000 splash screen. I tried to boot on safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, last known good configuration... I tried all of these boot options but none worked. It systematically hand before I get the login screen.

A friend of mine tried to plug the HD in a modular bay and connected it to another machine as a "slave" (not sure about the term) but the machine couldn't recognize the disk.

Does anyone have a clue about how I could fix this, I have a huge amount of data I desperately need to get back?

Thanks!

[tom_keefer]

I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of W2K, but do you have the option to do a repair install of the OS? If so, and if W2K is anything like XP the repair install process keeps all your apps, settings and special stuff.

<font color=purple>Tom</font color=purple>

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[scottengle]

Your friends PC may have not been NTFS and W2K typically is. If you get a program called partition majic, he should be able to recvoer your data

[BertImmenschuh]

The Operating System has to be able to recognize FAT 32 or NTFS, Win9x/ME can't recognize NTFS but Win2000 and WinXP can work with both FAT32 and NTFS. Try to read your hard drive as a Slave on either a WinXP or Win2000 computer, both use NTFS 5 [WinNT 4.0 used NTFS 4].

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