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Old May 27th 04, 08:44 PM
Ron Badour
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Default 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


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"Terry" tms[AT]pcpostal[DOT]com wrote in message
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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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Old May 27th 04, 08:52 PM
Gary S. Terhune
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Default Recover files/directories from corrupt file system

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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Old May 27th 04, 09:08 PM
Don Phillipson
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Default Recover files/directories from corrupt file system


"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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Old May 27th 04, 11:28 PM
Terry
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Default 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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