Step 3 -- File System Repair
All repairs to the system are done in memory. They are never written to the drive until the technician is ready to do so. In order to do this click on the Repair button in the Main Menu bar, located at the bottom of the screen. The following screen will appear.
The first thing to do is to determine if either a Partition, Boot Record, or both have failed the testing phase. Lets look at determining if a partition has failed.
Using the mouse click on the field just to the right of the text 'Choose Partition F1'. Displayed in that field now is the text 'NO CURRENT PARTITION' to indicate that the technician has not chosen a partition to repair. The following are two examples of the type of data which may be displayed for the partition selection.
The above figure displays the Choose Partition drop down menu. In order to use the menu just click on the field directly beneath PTN STATUS LBA SECTOR header. The drop down will be activated as depicted in the figure. Using the mouse or the up and down arrow keys scroll through the list to find a partition that has 'FAIL' in the STATUS column. In the above example there are not any partitions that have failed the testing phase.
In the next figure the first partition has 'FAILED'.
Using the mouse click on FAILED partition, or using the up and down arrow keys scroll to the FAILED partition and press ENTER.
The following screen will be displayed.
Using the mouse click on 'Okay' or
use the hotkey 'O'. This will close the Choose Partition drop down
menu and display the following screen.
As you can see, where the text 'NO CURRENT PARTITION' was displayed, the data for the FAILED partition is displayed. The PTN (Partition Number) is 1. The STATUS is FAIL. The LBA Sector where the partition resides in 0.
Once the partition to be repaired is
chosen it is time to check if there are any FAILED OS Boot records. We
have already seen that the STATUS column in the drop down will tell us if
a partition has failed. The OS Boot Record menu is the same. By clicking on the
field just right of the text 'Choose LID F2 -->>' the following
screen will appear.
Use the mouse or the down arrow
to activate the drop down menu as shown in the following figure.
Once again using the mouse or the up and down arrow keys choose the boot record that has failed the testing phase. Once chosen, click on 'Okay' and the following screen will
be displayed
As you can see in the above figure the data for the FAILED OS Boot Record has been placed into the second field.
Now that we have chosen which partition and or OS Boot Record we want to repair we want to make a backup of the system area we are about to WRITE the repaired system data too.
Save: This is self explanatory. Just make sure you have a formatted floppy in the drive before you save the original system data. Drive Master for NT will inform you that the
data has been saved.Note: The SAVE function is for your safety. If Drive Master cannot successfully repair the drive, this will restore the drive to the condition that it was in BEFORE you attempted to repair it. This allows you to try a different method, or to send it to a clean room in the original condition. We recommend that you always make a Save Disk. If you choose to ignore this warning, then you do so at your own risk! We have provided a means for you to try to retrieve the data with our software without risk. If you choose to take the risk, then please do not call our support line and complain about it later.
Restore: If for some reason after you have repaired the drive you do not get the
expected results you may restore the drive it its ORIGINAL CONDITION by using the restore button. Make sure the floppy you SAVED the original data too is in the drive. Just click on the Restore button and the data will be updated on your drive so that you may try a different approach to recover the damaged file system.Execute: This button is what actually WRITES the data onto the drive. Upon clicking
on this button Drive Master for NT will inform you if you have not made a SAVE disk. The software will then WARN you that you are about to WRITE data to the damaged drive. Respond to each of these warnings as is appropriate for the current situation.Once you have Chosen, Saved, and Executed just reboot the computer.
You system should come up with all the system security and data intact.