Ed, thaks for your reply.
Yes, I have Tape Backups taken ok , but its jsut the hassle of restting up the system and restoring from tape.. if there was an easier way I would prefer to go down that route.I'll have a look at erd Commander.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Gerard




>>I've finally got this infamous 'Blue screen of death' and cannot boot up our NT file server.
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>>When I attempt to boot it up, It keeps cycling around the blue screen after reading seeming to access the Hard disk for about 3-5 minutes.
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>>I tried booting from the Emergencu Repair disk but it said it could not boot.
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>>I then tried using the set up disks and wnt into 'Repair Mode' . This it could do, and was able to read some files on Windows\system32 and replaced them when they were not same as setup. I ran through this scuccessfully and attempted reboot again but same thing happened.
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>>Is there some way I can boot just to access data directories so that I can copy off data... as the disk seems ok but I just cannot boot Windows NT.
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>There's a commercial product, ERD Commander Pro, available from www.winternals.com, that will allow you to create a 4 disk floppy disk boot set that will start a special version of NT with a comand prompt, giving access to your file system; it can be used to perform certain repairs, copy files, reset administrator passwords and the like. It's not cheap, but it is probably your best chance of accessing the data files.
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>FWIW, it sounds like something is seriously wrong with the system disk (the volume where NT itself is located) so if you are worried about being able to recover data, your best bet would be to contact one of the disk recovery services like OnTrak and pay them to recover the data as best possible; these services are not cheap, but will generally be able to recover much more of the system, since they have specialized hardware and software that can deal with physical mechanical and electrical damage to the disk drive. Trying to be a hero and save data off when there's actual damage to the drive is not smart, since every power up/power down sequence increases the likelihood of causing further damage if there's actual damage to the disk drive.
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>Making backup regularly is by far the best solution; if you had made a backup on a daily basis, the data for one day at most would be subject to loss. This does you no good now, but is something to keep in mind in the future. A tape backup system can be purchased for under $200, less than ERD COmmander or a data recovery service would charge to recover data.