Thanks for the tips all! I downloaded and put the ubcd tools on a cd. It booted the laptop up really fast and gave me the menus. Got into some tools - very nice. However, I was wondering if the testdisk on it has the capability to recreate an MFT without losing everything on the drive, and if it does, how you do it?
Or, if I can just do something to pull the \users directory and all subs off the system before we send it back for warranty service? My goal is to get the documents and pictures off it for the owner, we will reload/replace the laptop afterwards. Don K ________________________________ From: tony patton <tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 8:22:03 AM Subject: Re: On the back of the "favorite tools" thread,... Testdisk, http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk I'm always playing with the partitions at home and it's saved me from an ear bashing from the wife when her photos are gone. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com John Cook <john.c...@pfsf.org> 03/08/2009 21:48 Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> To "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> cc Subject Re: On the back of the "favorite tools" thread,... Easus partition manager John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Kuhlman <drkuhl...@yahoo.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Mon Aug 03 16:44:36 2009 Subject: Re: On the back of the "favorite tools" thread,... Anyone have any ideas for rebuilding the MFT after corrupting the primary and backup version of it on a hard drive for a Toshiba laptop? Hoping that if the MFT is gone (both versions) the data is still there and may be recoverable somehow? Thanks Don K ----- Original Message ---- From: "Maglinger, Paul" <pmaglin...@scvl.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 3:35:21 PM Subject: RE: On the back of the "favorite tools" thread,... To pound on hard drives specifically, I like to use iometer. http://www.iometer.org/ -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On the back of the "favorite tools" thread,... Does anyone here have any decent stress test tools? When we get a new server we like to soak test it on the bench for a couple of days, but what Id like to do is run some tests on it that stress the CPU, Memory, HDD's etc... Does anyone do this, and if so what do you use? Iv looked at UBCD, but it has too many things on it really, Id like something I can boot the server with and it just gets on with it, it would be handy if it runs inside Windows as well as being a boot disk. -- Gavin Wilby. MCSE. MCTS. MCITP. ACSP. 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