bootable disk with harddisk access

Hello

I have crashed my ntfs harddisk unbootable. In order to solve this, I have
downloaded ntrecover.exe from sysinternals.com and programmed
a program, that read blocks from the hard disk over the serial cable
to a running pc to analyze the ntfs blocks. Everything was working
like a charm until I detected that ntrecover cannot access blocks
higher than or equal 0x800000. Now, my idea is to create sort of a boot disk
of my own with my programm so that I can read all blocks I need.

Of course I am open for all suggestions

A.A.

if you just want to read the blocks off a disk and analyze them, you don't need
to mount the disk as NTFS, so you don't need the sysinternals.com programs. A
simple MSDOS program will do... which you can create under win9x and use one of
the win9x boot floppies.

David
Albert Albani wrote:
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> Hello
>
> I have crashed my ntfs harddisk unbootable. In order to solve this, I have
> downloaded ntrecover.exe from sysinternals.com and programmed
> a program, that read blocks from the hard disk over the serial cable
> to a running pc to analyze the ntfs blocks. Everything was working
> like a charm until I detected that ntrecover cannot access blocks
> higher than or equal 0x800000. Now, my idea is to create sort of a boot disk
> of my own with my programm so that I can read all blocks I need.
>
> Of course I am open for all suggestions
>
> A.A.[/color]