There are a couple of Free DOS Boot programs that will help in getting your
data back from NTFS partitions.  Read and download from:

http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm

http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm

Doug

At 3/18/2005 12:44 PM, Stan & Brenda wrote:

>My daughter-in-law's lap top seems to have crashed (again).  It had
>Windows XP on it. I can redo everything from scratch with the restore
>disks.  Before I do this My question is, when I go into C:\ drive in DOS
>using a windows 98 boot disk, and run a directory there are only 14
>(utility) files and no directories from the previous setup.  Does this
>mean they have all been wiped out or are they some where I don't know
>about?  I tried the restore disk but it just came up and said to contact
>Compaq.  I was going to try to save a couple of their files they didn't
>have backed up.  My guess is that they are all gone.  Am I right?

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