We have an off site XP Pro machine that has suffered a hard drive failure due to unknown reason. There is a very important database file I need to recover off that drive. No, there is not a backup copy, I can't fix all the previous problems at once, so let;s don't go there.

Here's the deal, I have a drive that just keeps rebooting, no repair installation is possible without formatting the drive. I can however get to a DOS prompt and I can also drive down to the file. The problem is that I am getting an "Access is Denied" message when I try and copy it.

CHKDSK returns the error message "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable errors" after 58% completion. ATTRIB is one more possibly in order to remove all attributes with the file.

Is there any way around this? You would make some military personnel very happy if we can solve this problem.

Thanks all.