[Pc_Support] NTFS Hard Drive Recovery

[Bruce Metcalf]

Gang,

There I was, minding my own business, uninstalling Norton Antivirus 
2005 from my Win2k system. It required a reboot, and when the system 
came back up, my second hard drive was inaccessable. Much cussing and 
reconfiguring later, I get a message that the drive is unformatted. WTF?

[Insert obligatory remarks about the natural superiority of Linux, 
etc. etc. here.]

Does anyone have an idea about how to rescue the data short of 
sending the drive out for major salvage? Cost me $135 last time.

And if it matters, it's a Maxtor 6Y060L0, 60G ATA.

[Insert obligatory reference to Bryan's commentaries on the use of 
enterprise-rated hard drives here.]

Any help will be most sincerely appreciated, either by email or at 
Saturday's Installfest.

Bruce Metcalf