I had a routerOS 3.3 installation on an x86 system thats been running for close to a year now. Now all of a sudden I'm getting this error at boot. I have no idea why its happening or what could've triggered it. I've tested the harddrive separately and it seems to be fine, it had a few partition errors that were fixed (by partition magic) but otherwise no bad sectors, the ram is also working fine with no errors. Unfortunately this happened right before the end of the month when a script usually kicks in to upload the backup & some other stuff online. Any idea how to fix this ? If not is there anyway I can access the backup file from the files area of mikrotik so I can reinstall and restore it to working condition ?

I take it nobody knows how to recover a file from a non-functioning MK installation ? Or how to fix this one and get it back to a functional state ? Anyone know at least why it happened so I can avoid it in the future ?