Hard drive failure=data recovery efforts

[andy669]

Originally posted by Skyman
There are many ways for data recovery, it just depends what state the drive is in.

Your running FAT 32 most likely on the old win98 drive, and most likely NTFS file system on the XP drive.

Exactly

When you say you copied it in dos, you just did start-run CMD

When I was copying files from dos I had the old drive as a secondary master. (see description below)

There is no dos prompt or dos built into win XP anymore.

hmmmm......... My copy of XP Professional does have the C: prompt command. I tried an xcopy of an entire directory but that was too much for the old drive to take. After attempting this I had to reboot cause the drive could not be found anymore. I then just copied files individually using the copy command, only a very few of them copied. DOS would act like they copied, but when I checked the directory they werent there.

Has the heads on the drive crashed? Does it click or make strange sounds? Thats when data recovery gets expensive, but not impossible.

Yes, this thing clicks like crazy!

Goto CMOS at the bootup of your system and see if the drive is detected, if so find a WIN98 machine and make a boot disk off of it.

Sometimes the drive is detected and others it isnt, I would venture to say that it is getting worse. (the more I mess with it, the less it is detected)

Boot up w/ the win 98 disk and when you get to dos run a quick scandisk on the crashed drive.

Thanks I will try that right now!

after you do that copy what you can over from dos.

Skyler

Thanks for the responses Sky and 69!