| Subject | : | hpfs partition file recovery |
| Author | : | renato renatogui@gmx.net |
| Date | : | 06 May, 2003 on 01:01 |
| I have a system with 2 HDs and some different OS, mainly Windows98 and OS/2 (eCS 1.0) but also linux and beos, all of them bootable from OS/2 boot manager. I don't know why but now I only can boot Windows98 because the others freeze during boot process. I would like at least to recover my 5 years old PMMAIL post that is aparently untouched in a HPFS partition that do not hold OS/2 system. I tried to boot a floppy based linux (tomsrtbt) but it freezes too. I downloaded DFSee but did not change anything because I am affraid of messing up all (very hard to use this program securely). Well, can you tell me a way I can save to my second HD my HPFS PMMAIL directory? part 8 (first hd, second hpfs partition) The program seem to find all the files in the partition but I could not manage to transfer them to another place. I used for L above the LVM letter of my second hd hpfs partition; the LVM letter of a FAT16 partitions of the same hd and the DOS letter of one of the mounted partitions under DOS. I allways get the message 0 files recovered. Anything I can do before to format my hd and lost my mail? renato PS: am I in the right forum? |
| Subject | : | Re:hpfs partition file recovery |
| Author | : | davidfor |
| Date | : | 08 May, 2003 on 01:38 |
| I've recently had a drive failed, and had to resort to DFSee to recover LOTS of data. Luckily, it worked. There isn't a "read only" mode in DFSee, so that's not it. The things I can think of are: - the recover command might not be able to write to the root of a drive. You may need to specify a directory (e.g. L:\RecoveredPMMail). - I suspect you have the "L:" wrong. This needs to be a drive letter that exists in the OS you have booted to run DFS in. Check this before starting DFSee. - Also, I can't tell where you are running DFSee from. If you are trying to do this from a DOS prompt in Win98, I don't think it will work. You need to be in real DOS. It might be OK to boot Win98 to the command prompt (F8 then a menu option during the boot I think). The best place to ask this would be http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfsee-support. Also, there is an HPFS driver for DOS that you could possibly use to get access to the data. I haven't used it, but, I assume it is on hobbes. David |
| Subject | : | Re:hpfs partition file recovery |
| Author | : | renato renatogui@gmx.net |
| Date | : | 12 May, 2003 on 16:14 |
| Thanks Dave. Your answer was very complete and gave me many usefull different paths to try. Renato |