From: waldo kitty 

John Cuccia  wrote in
news:l8sde0hghnbh8kfvp1u7nnga68o0okvu87{at}4ax.com:

> If you can, install a 2nd instance of the OS and boot to it.  You
> should then be able to copy data.  After that, wipe. reinstall the
> OS, and restore the data.

if i can install it... just don't know where to get the install from unless
the laptop has a hidden OEM install partition on it...

i think it'll be faster to get a DOS disk with a NTFS or FTA32 driver on it
and run GUEST to access an external parallel port 100M ZIP disk and just
copy their data off ;)

>
> On 2 Jul 2004 22:32:20 -0400, waldo kitty  wrote:
>
>>
>>a friend gave me his XPH laptop to (try to) fix... they had taken it
>>to a couple of other places and each had told them that their HD had
>>crapped out... neither of us believe this since the machine will boot
>>but seems to be in a reboot loop... something about can access a
>>hive, dumping virtual memory and rebooting... i seem to recall a worm
>>that would/could cause this type of behavoir...
>>
>>its a HP laptop and there's (currently) no CD or other restore
>>disk... possibly something on a hidden partition or something... i'm
>>considering a DOS boot disk with NTFS driver to access the drive to
>>gather data that is not wanted to be lost... mainly pictures of
>>family and geneology stuff...
>>
>>any advice is greatly appreciated!
>



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