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Originally Posted by Disk_Contented
Why didn't you just repair it in the first place?
the super secret Sys volume information folder is easily shown using folder options/view/hide protected system files. You untick it.
You can recover files from a dead volume, but you don't know about folder options? :O
Anyway, make sure this is now ticked. Or try this:
http://www.febooti.com/products/file...ttributes.html
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Hi Disk, I should have elaborated further. I did run the XP repair install initially, after I tried FIXMBR and FIXBOOT. None of this had any effect, even after the repair install.
My next step was to copy files out of the windows repair directory into the sys32 config directory, this allowed me to boot into windows with a default user/administrator account (of course none of my previous settings or registry values were available). At this point, since I appearantly had admin status I tried to set the folder options using the method you describe. It looked like it was changing the attributes, no error message, but it did not actually change them, the circle was still ticked to hide the system files. I really don't have a clue why it was behaving that way.
Being an old DOS/Unix geezer (plus cheapskate), I could not bring myself to call the Geek Squad, so I removed the hidden attributes from ALL the files using the command line ATTRIB command, thus reveling the stupid file and proceeded to play mix and match with the restore registry values until I got a viable system. I did try to remove the hidden attribute from just "System Volume Information" but I could not make ATTRIB understand that it was single file name rather than three separate ones, so I just said screw it, and wildcarded it.
I do have a several image files of the entire system on an external drive, plus week old copies of all data files, so I could theoretically restore the entire drive, but I have never restored an entire drive using Seagates Arconis based software, so I am going to wait on that until this weekend after I pickup a spare hard drive, just in case.
Sorry for the long winded response. Thanks for trying to help.
And to make the response just a bit longer, the hide system files circle is currently ticked, but the XP files are still visible, I guess a changes made with ATTRIB over rides folder option changes.