Computer crash..trying to salvage files
Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at 9:39 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by newcal
(4 messages posted)
Any help is welcome!
I have an old Dell 266mhz with 2 drives in it.
My virus scanning software from Norton was filling in my C drive at a fast pace and
of course I had not backed up my files for a while. The system crashed because there
was not enough memory left on the C drive. A boot message was telling me also that
my registry was corrupted. I looked at my C:\Windows directory and could not find
anything in that directory so I figured I had to run Scandisk....I did...it fixed
what it found in error and created 64 directories with the names of DIR000n (n going
from 1 to 64). Rebooting it still did not work and I tried an old rescue disk where
I found the scanreg utility. I ran it and it said it could not fix the registry.
I tried to restore an old registry RB00..file but could not find one anywhere (of
course going through 64 DIR000...directories would take forever. So now I cannot
boot the system with CD-ROM support since I cannot find my CD-ROM drivers either
and I cannot use the CD-ROM drive to get the drivers from the drive's CD either.
Basically at this point, I have given up but I would like to salvage my D: drive
(60GB Maxtor) which has my most valuable data (about 20GB worth of it). I can see
the drive in DOS and can see the files I need to recover in DOS but obviously cannot
copy them via a floppy. Is there anyway I can get my files out of that drive? Short
of duplicating harware or having to install that drive into a new computer....Thanks
in advance
Newcal
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