Ditto... I've scared many people by placing two machines next to each other, and plugging the dead computer's hard drive into the live computer's secondary bus and power supply. You don't even have to remove the drive from the case, in most cases... YMMV, Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA David Clark Company Inc. -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Berry Posted At: Friday, May 27, 2005 5:56 PM Posted To: Windows 2000 Conversation: [windows2000] Re: Rebuild W2K Pro Subject: [windows2000] Re: Rebuild W2K Pro My favorite trick in that case is to mount it as a slave drive in a working machine. Chris Berry chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Advisory Manager JM Associates "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." --Peter Drucker David L.Spanne wrote: > Tell us what happens. I had an XP box that would not boot, and tried > everything I could think of (Linux boot with samba, recovery console, > overinstall etc.) and could not get it to boot. Scanned drive with Trend > Micro, and found a nasty virus/worm that makes machine unbootable. Recovered > all data, but could never get it to boot. Had to build a new boot drive. > Many miserable hours of work, and serves me right for skimping on security > software and backups. > David Spanne > > > Subject: [windows2000] Re: Rebuild W2K Pro > From: George Yobst <george.yobst@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:08:37 -0700 > To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll try them. > -George > > On 5/27/05, Schneider, Robert <Robert.Schneider@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> >>Winternals NTFS Dos. 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