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Recover files/directories from corrupt file system
Once you are up and running with the new drive, slave the old drive and then
use recovery software to see what you can find. If you are using OE, the email files have a .dbx extension (inbox.dbx). You need to quit using the partition that the files were deleted from in order to prevent the deleted files from being overwritten. You will need help trying to retrieve the files: IRecover, $50 to $100, The demo version gives an indication of what information can be recovered from your hard disk but data is not recovered. http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuur...x.htm#irecover If your data is valuable, the author of the software provides tech support should you run into problems. Recover4All, $49, demo will retrieve files up to 10 kb and show what else can be retrieved. Retrieved files are copied to another drive: http://www.recover4all.com/ Restoration, Freeware, not tried: http://www.webattack.com/get/restoration.html -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Terry" tms[AT]pcpostal[DOT]com wrote in message ... Hello all, Looking for ideas, recommendations, etc. I previously posted several days ago regarding my drive getting hosed (Seagate 20gig Baracuda FAT32 on a Win98SE box). The FAT or MBR got corrupted somehow, where a few of the directories (like c:\windows) vanished and 7 files with ascii 128 names (like Ç Ç Ç Ç .Ç Ç), with a total size of the HD (the total HD capacity, not space used), are now in the root dir. Fortunately, only a handful of directories vanished and I can recover most datafiles and such. Funny thing is, I have reletively recent backups of the pertinent directories that didn't vanish, so if I had lost any of those it wouldn't be a biggie. I have recent backups of most of the dirs that vanished, but a couple of them I hadn't backed up in a few months (like my directory that contains my email folders (inbox, etc.) and a dir with some video captures). I bought a new Western Digital drive for the box and pulled the problem Seagate. So my question is, anyone have any ideas, recommendations, etc. for repairing the corrupted file system and/or recovering the files/directory structure on the funky Seagate? I would be thrilled to at least recover my inbox directory since there are some business emails in there since the last backup. Thanks |
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The system I chose for such work is R-Studio. I looked at several, tested
several, and decided on this. The particular job that warranted the purchase was to recover stuff for a client who had a situation similar to yours. In that case, it was a laptop, so I had to use a floppy-boot based "true image" application to transfer the sectors intact to CD, then to my work station, but in your case, simply attaching the old drive to your system should work. Must be run under Windows. http://www.data-recovery-software.net/ -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "Terry" tms[AT]pcpostal[DOT]com wrote in message ... Hello all, Looking for ideas, recommendations, etc. I previously posted several days ago regarding my drive getting hosed (Seagate 20gig Baracuda FAT32 on a Win98SE box). The FAT or MBR got corrupted somehow, where a few of the directories (like c:\windows) vanished and 7 files with ascii 128 names (like Ç Ç Ç Ç .Ç Ç), with a total size of the HD (the total HD capacity, not space used), are now in the root dir. Fortunately, only a handful of directories vanished and I can recover most datafiles and such. Funny thing is, I have reletively recent backups of the pertinent directories that didn't vanish, so if I had lost any of those it wouldn't be a biggie. I have recent backups of most of the dirs that vanished, but a couple of them I hadn't backed up in a few months (like my directory that contains my email folders (inbox, etc.) and a dir with some video captures). I bought a new Western Digital drive for the box and pulled the problem Seagate. So my question is, anyone have any ideas, recommendations, etc. for repairing the corrupted file system and/or recovering the files/directory structure on the funky Seagate? I would be thrilled to at least recover my inbox directory since there are some business emails in there since the last backup. Thanks |
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"Terry" tms[AT]pcpostal[DOT]com wrote in message ... So my question is, anyone have any ideas, recommendations, etc. for repairing the corrupted file system and/or recovering the files/directory structure on the funky Seagate? I would be thrilled to at least recover my inbox directory since there are some business emails in there since the last backup. After a crash like that, not many PC users would attempt to repair the corrupted file system. Drives are so cheap almost anyone can afford to (1) instal a new drive and put the OS on that, (2) instal the damaged drive as Drive 2 and copy everything that appears coherent, (3) either abandon the damaged drive or reuse it only after exhaustive tests in which you have confidence. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Recover files/directories from corrupt file system
Hello all,
Looking for ideas, recommendations, etc. I previously posted several days ago regarding my drive getting hosed (Seagate 20gig Baracuda FAT32 on a Win98SE box). The FAT or MBR got corrupted somehow, where a few of the directories (like c:\windows) vanished and 7 files with ascii 128 names (like Ç Ç Ç Ç .Ç Ç), with a total size of the HD (the total HD capacity, not space used), are now in the root dir. Fortunately, only a handful of directories vanished and I can recover most datafiles and such. Funny thing is, I have reletively recent backups of the pertinent directories that didn't vanish, so if I had lost any of those it wouldn't be a biggie. I have recent backups of most of the dirs that vanished, but a couple of them I hadn't backed up in a few months (like my directory that contains my email folders (inbox, etc.) and a dir with some video captures). I bought a new Western Digital drive for the box and pulled the problem Seagate. So my question is, anyone have any ideas, recommendations, etc. for repairing the corrupted file system and/or recovering the files/directory structure on the funky Seagate? I would be thrilled to at least recover my inbox directory since there are some business emails in there since the last backup. Thanks |
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