| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 45923 | 2004-06-07 07:29:00 | one for the propellor heads | killrelig (1726) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1357087 | 2004-06-07 07:29:00 | friend of mine dropped this in my lap........... old win 98 machine with a 2gb drive drive shows up on post but thats as far as it goes. put said drive in another box as a slave, shows on post but not seen under dos or win98 though partition magic sees it as an unallocated volume. Friend is hoping to recover data off drive and said that a computer tech she knows thinks the drive has compressed itself??? its almost like the drive is unformatted any ideas appreciated |
killrelig (1726) | ||
| 1357088 | 2004-06-07 08:47:00 | I'd suggest trying to use Ghost to image the drive before you fiddle around wiht it........... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 1357089 | 2004-06-07 08:48:00 | I used to use a freely downloaded product called Drive Rescue to rescue data off drives. Don't know if it's still around, but if you can find it, give it a shot | antmannz (28) | ||
| 1357090 | 2004-06-07 12:30:00 | Try Spinrite from Gibson Research Corporation www.grc.com |
Exwesty (5639) | ||
| 1357091 | 2004-06-07 13:50:00 | While I have never used Ghost, I have used SpinRite for many years, and Drive Rescue is another favourite. You can get drive rescue here, (www.woundedmoon.org) and Gibson Research's SpinRite here. (grc.com) Hope this helps save your friend's data R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1357092 | 2004-06-08 03:29:00 | The drive can't have "compressed itself". ;-) The OS might have been told to compress the contents. But even so, you should be able to see some "DOS-readable" files because a compressed disk isn't bootable, so what is built is a disk with a small uncompressed partition with the boot stuff, including a driver to do the compress/uncompress and another partition which holds the compressed contents. DRDos used to just have a (big) file with the compressed contents. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 1357093 | 2004-06-10 00:07:00 | thanks for the link to drive rescue Rx21 It sees the physical drive but cant recover or see anything i spose theres the possibility that the drive is phsically or electrically bad Ill keep trying cheers Killrelig |
killrelig (1726) | ||
| 1357094 | 2004-06-10 00:09:00 | heres hoping the drive isnt as bad as my spelling | killrelig (1726) | ||
| 1357095 | 2004-06-10 00:35:00 | I suppose you have tried using FDISK from a boot floppy, option 4, just to see what partitions and type FDISK says are there? | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1357096 | 2004-06-10 01:53:00 | yep terry sure have nothing showed up at all but thanks anyway |
killrelig (1726) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||