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As for now, I didn't find a Program that runs under Windows 98 and is able to recover my Documents and Settings folder on the Xp NTFS drive

Have you tried any 3rd-party NTFS driver, like this or this?

If all else fails, you can still build your harddisk into a working NT/2k/XP machine and try to access your data from there.

When life hands you a lemon, that's 40% of your RDA of vitamin C taken care of.

I found exactly ONE program that did good, that's VirtualLab

It scanned through all Clusters and found all files, so I tried to save, when it told me that i need to buy quota, 119$ for 1 gb, 500 $ for 5 gb, to save files.

If a 3rd Party NTFS driver would do....

Almoust all recovery programs that read NTFS crash because they are made for XP

problem is that I have Error 1507 (reported by partition magic)
"Bad File record signature"
If it wasn't for those two 1507 errors, I could convert the partition into a Logical one, which would help, I could brose the files using PM and so on.

PM homepage tells to use chkdsk to fix those errors, but as written before, chkdsk didn't work

mhhh trying norton utilities, maybe that helps

cya Magic

"The wise have always said the same things, and fools have always done the opposite"-Schopenhauer

Mhh maybe you're hint helped me

because when looking around in my NTFS for Win 98 with read-only capabilities, i found NTFSCHK and when I run it, it resolves a lot of problems

Dude am I happy that it only has got read acces :(

now I have to get NTFSCHK to run in dos, what it would do If I had NT Boot Discs

Well I'll try to start it using the Windows XP recovery Console

cya later, Magic

"The wise have always said the same things, and fools have always done the opposite"-Schopenhauer

AFAIK, fixmbr only repairs the MBR's (boot) code, not the partition table itself.

I remember owning a copy of Dr. Solomon's Antivirus package, which came with a handy tool called cleanpar.exe ("par" as in "partition"). It built its own partition table by scanning one whole physical drive for blocks that contained valid boot sectors (or something), compared it with the actual MBR and constructed a new partition table. Unfortunately I can't seem to find this anymore, but you might be luckier than me.

If you have access to a disk editor like in Norton Utilities, you can also boot to DOS and search your drive for blocks (not clusters or files) with the hex bytes 55 AA at the end. If it looks like a boot sector (and contains some text like "IBM" or "DOS" or "FAT"), it's probably the first block of a partition.

Good luck!

When life hands you a lemon, that's 40% of your RDA of vitamin C taken care of.