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poster
both fat copies gone so any ideas please for(preferably dos based)
tool to fix-build fat table?
tool to fix-build fat table?
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Shenan Stanley
poster said:both fat copies gone so any ideas please for(preferably dos based)
tool to fix-build fat table?
Not a lot of information in your posting.
Some details might help.
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Bob Harris
The old (DOS/win98) Norton Utilities could do some repairs/recoveries from a
bootable floppy, or in later versions form a bootable CD.
You probably want to try a version from the late 1990s or early 2000s,
before XP came along.
bootable floppy, or in later versions form a bootable CD.
You probably want to try a version from the late 1990s or early 2000s,
before XP came along.
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XP Guy
poster said:both fat copies gone so any ideas please for(preferably dos based)
tool to fix-build fat table?
Lost and Found (or, perhaps it's known as Lost & Found).
It can rebuild a FAT drive by reconstructing file chains. It originally
came on a two floppy set (I have it because I had to use it about 10
years ago on a drive that also had it's FAT tables pooched).
To use it, you boot it from a floppy. Your ****ed up drive is connected
as primary master and you must connect a blank hard drive to secondary
master IDE channel.
L&F will read from the ****ed up drive and recover it by writing to the
blank drive. I think all directories are given numerical names (ie the
original directory names are not recovered) but the file names are
maintained.
Lost and Found is available on Hiren's boot CD (available on the net as
well as torrent download). A very useful CD. It contains many hard
drive recovery tools and utilities.