Is there anyway to view what's on the hard disk of a NT Server while it is stand alone not connected to the network?

Can you go to DOS mode like Windows 98 and view the hard disks? If so, how?

We have important data we need to gain back but everytime we log in, it logs us straight out again because its not connnected to the network any longer?

Any ideas?

Re: Windows NT Server

You need to get yourself a program called NTFDOS.EXE. Just do a search to find it, then use a boot disk to start your server in DOS mode and run NTFDOS.EXE. That will give you full acces to all your NTFS partitions on the server. Hope this helps.

Re: Windows NT Server

When you are prompted to login, change the domain to the name of the local machine.

You will have to know the login details for it though.

Re: Windows NT Server

NT Server only allows Administrators to logon locally by default. Are you using an Admin account? Otherwise you should be able to log on locally without a live network connection. Is the server a domain controller or stand-a-lone? If standalone, use the local administrators account and change the domain to the local machine name rather than the domain name.

Presuambly the boot partition has been formatted with NTFS. If this is the case you will be unable to read the contents of the drive from DOS. It is possible to boot the machine with a DOS disk, and if the info is on a separate FAT partition you should be unable to access it.

If not, a utility called NTFS Dos would be a good help at this point. It is downloadable from www.winternals.com as a demo. The demo version allows you to read the partition only, but this may be all you need. The full version is about US$200.

Hope this helps