Recuing a hard drive...help!

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Guy

Is there a good DOS FREEWARE out there that would recover files from a hard
drive? Something like Drive Rescue or PC File Inspector Recovery or the
like.

Those freeware are good but I can't get my hard drive going in the WINDOWS
environment. But when I boot up with a DS boot up disk and use a evaluation
copy of a commercial (EXPENSIVE) recovery program, I can see all the files
on my entire 40gig hard drive. I really need something to get those data
back.

Can anyone help.

Thanks
 
Is there a good DOS FREEWARE out there that would recover files from a hard
drive? Something like Drive Rescue or PC File Inspector Recovery or the
like.

Those freeware are good but I can't get my hard drive going in the WINDOWS
environment. But when I boot up with a DS boot up disk and use a evaluation
copy of a commercial (EXPENSIVE) recovery program, I can see all the files
on my entire 40gig hard drive. I really need something to get those data
back.

Can anyone help.

Thanks
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I gave up on Freeware programs and bought GetDataBack.

Partition Magic crashed as a result of a power failure. PM uses an old
Unix program and neither DOS or Wundoze could see the data.

Recovered everything except the big file PM was actually moving at the
time of the power outage.

Sorry I cannot give you what you are looking for.

Cheers,
 
Is there a good DOS FREEWARE out there that would recover files from a hard
drive? Something like Drive Rescue or PC File Inspector Recovery or the
like.

Those freeware are good but I can't get my hard drive going in the WINDOWS
environment.
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What version of Windows? Can you boot up into Safe mode? Is your h.d.
failing? Or is it that you just can't boot up into Windows?
But when I boot up with a DS
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You mean DOS?
boot up disk and use a evaluation
copy of a commercial (EXPENSIVE) recovery program, I can see all the files
on my entire 40gig hard drive. I really need something to get those data
back.
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It's not clear to me what you mean by "get those data back". You mean
you accidentally erased some critical files? Or exactly what?

For Win 9x/ME there is a way to make a boot disk that boots you up
into Windows. You'd have to do this on a clean working PC with the
same version of Windows:

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy32.htm


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
You could always use a bootable Linux cd like Knoppix to mount the fat32
partition and copy the files elsewhere.
Louis
 
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