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Cant access some of a Partition
It appears that one of my hard drives is going to crap. It's my second
(slave) drive, which has 3 partitions on it. 120gb IDE drive. Formatted to Fat32. This is a Win98se computer. Oddly, from Dos, I can see all the folders in that partition. From Windows, I only see about half of them. This partition contains storage files. Most are backed up, but there is a large folder containing some valuable info that I do not have backed up. In fact I first noticed this problem when I wanted to backup that folder to am external HDD. I ran Scandisk, first the fast method, which told me to use the thorough method. I ran the thorough one, which took hours. While running, it got to one cluster and said that one can not be fixed. The rest of that partition tested ok. When scandisk ended, it said that it could not fix that one error, and when I tried to close Scandisk, Windows locked up. Temporarily, I removed that drive. Since it's all storage, I can still use the computer. I intend to buy another drive of the same size and type. However, I really need to save that data, especially that one large folder, which contains many sub folders. Like I said, I do not see that folder from Windows, but I can see it from Dos (I dont understand that). Of course in Dos, all the filenames are truncated. I can either stick it back in this computer, or probably connect it via USB to my XP laptop. What software can I use to extract the data I want to save? I do have Partition Magic (not sure if that will help). If there is a bad cluster, I'd expect a few files getting lost, but I cant see many of the folders that according to Dos are still there. Please help!!! Note: I am not a Linux user, but maybe I could connect this drive to another computer and boot that computer with some smallish linux such as Puppy Linux, from a bootable USB. I have used that method to retrieve data from an XP drive, after the motherboard failed, but I never tried it to retrieve data from a failing HDD. |
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