Re: Software recovery
- From: "wattersmt@xxxxxxxxx" <wattersmt@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:23:46 -0000
On Sep 28, 4:40 pm, "captainvideo462...@xxxxxxxxx"
<captainvideo462...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an old Seagate ST251 MFM drive that just croaked. While booting
up it made some horrendous "clacking" noises and now I get a drive
failure indication when booting up. It defaults and then I can boot
off a floppy and still get into C: (the first partition) The problem
and where my needed data is drive d and although the drive is there
doing a dir gets you a data error message. Scandisk can't touch it and
Norton says that the FAT is bad and only a low level format can
correct this. Well if I wanted to do a format I wouldn't be interested
in retrieving my data. The OS is DOS 6.2. Does anyone know of a good
utility that I can down load in DOS and that will work with DOS and
give me at least a prayer of getting my data back? And if its a free
utility all the better. Thanks, Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics.
Pull the drive out and put it in a linux box or a system that can boot
from CD-ROM, there's plenty of tools you can use to make an image of
the drive, dd, ddrescue, etc. but if it's truly a hardware issue you
may not be able to read it.
If the data is so important you should have backups.
.
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