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| 223207 | 2004-03-17 08:57:00 | I have a computer which will not boot. Was working OK. Have tried using a rescue disk which tells me that the FAT or FAT32 is corrupted. Fdisk shows that there is not a DOS partition. How do I establish the FAT without losing all the files? Thanks Gale |
gale (1481) | ||
| 223208 | 2004-03-17 09:06:00 | can you provide some information about the operating system (eg. windows xp) and file system you'r using (eg. fat32. ntfs) | Jacob4165 (199) | ||
| 223209 | 2004-03-17 09:08:00 | If you really want the files off it (and there is no guarantee that they will be recoverable), there are some companies that specialise in data recovery at a low level. Do a search in your favourite search engine for "data recovery" or similar. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 223210 | 2004-03-17 09:42:00 | It is a Win 98 P 100 | gale (1481) | ||
| 223211 | 2004-03-17 09:46:00 | do i take it that fdisk shows that there is no partition? if so does the drive show up correctly in the bios? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 223212 | 2004-03-17 10:33:00 | Drive shows up correctly. Fdisk shows no partition | gale (1481) | ||
| 223213 | 2004-03-17 10:35:00 | Drop the drive into another computer and use a program to try and do a raw recovery. there is one available at www.download.com |
metla (154) | ||
| 223214 | 2004-03-17 10:45:00 | Am trying to that now. Have downloaded a program GetDataBack. Problems is the second computer recognizes the problem disk but freezes once windows is loaded. Will post a messasge when all is going. Thanks for all the help |
gale (1481) | ||
| 223215 | 2004-03-18 05:54:00 | You should really look at getting a program that will copy/recover the partitions from DOS. Booting into windows won't help things because it will detect the stuffed drive and not know what to do. | PoWa (203) | ||
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