re: Computer crash..trying to salvage files
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 2:09 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by grunt
(303 messages posted)
Sounds like it has bad memory or something. This has happened to me, My Fault!
I trusted Windows Compression. The DoubleSpace.
It seems that the memory I had was bad, when I tried to
uncompress the harddisk it lost everything I had.
Scandisk was always finding errors.
I don't think you can install Windows 98 from an Upgrade CD-ROM. You will have
to have the Full version to re-install windows.
On Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at 9:39 am, newcal wrote:
>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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