Not so happy new year

[Richard Hubbard]

sysinternals.com, last i heard, has an ntfs reading
dos boot disk.  Put it in, boot and read the ntfs
partition.  (The name, i think, is ntfsdos, but try it
out to see) 


--- David M Rosonowski <rosonowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok, this is mildly offtopic, but in the computery
> range anyways.
> 
> Here's my situation. I go to a New Year's LAN party.
> I
> meet a great girl. I get her phone number. I put it
> into a text file, and continue talking to her for
> the
> night.
> 
> I go home. I plug my machine back into the network.
> I
> press the power switch... nothing.
> 
> I try a few things, and nothing.
> 
> I do a complete teardown and rebuild, nothing.
> 
> About this time, I'm reaaaly pissed off. Now, I
> happen
> to really like this girl (she's cute, and the first
> thing I heard out of her was "Oooh! Is that Unreal
> 2k3?"). 
> 
> The dillema is here - the motherboard is fried, and
> although an RMA is in the works, I still don't have
> a
> machine that can recognize the drive. Now, modern
> linux distros would circumvent this problem, but
> this
> machine is running windows on an NTFS partiton,so I
> can't do anything along that line.
> 
>  I know "BIOS" tools exist, but I can't think of any
> of them, or where to get them. Are there any that
> anyone would recommend? 
> 
> Alternately, (and what I'd like to do more), I don't
> suppose anyone has a board that I could borrow in
> the
> time it takes for a new one to come in?
> 
> David M Rosonowski, "The Lost And Lovelorn"?
> 
> =====
> "I have not slept a wink"
> William Shakespeare, Cybelime
> 
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