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how can i transfer from a bad fat drive?

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First post, by Nic-93

Posted on 2016-10-19, 17:23

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i cant sem to acces a old quantum fireball that once used to be c: drive on another windows 98 machine ive treid to recover files lately from it and i did remember to adjust jumper to slave but it sems to cause freezeing on if i try to acces it from the my computer folder, and scandisk cant scan it because of a bad fat file, does anyone know a safe way i can move it over to my main c drive? the drive was also windows 98 but cant sem to read the fat, the computer used to have 2 quantum drives but they where adjusted to master and slave, i could recover fine from the slave but its the master one i have troubel from

Reply 1 of 10, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-10-19, 18:14

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If the FAT is unreadable, then you can pretty much give up on recovering any "files". You could try TESTDISK in Linux (or a Linux-based recovery disk).

But otherwise, your only hope is to use a drive imaging program like Partimage, and try to pull out data piece by piece from the image. If a drive imaging program can't get anywhere, then you may need a professional.

Reply 2 of 10, by Nic-93

Posted on 2016-10-19, 18:18

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but i can acces the files fine in command prompt, and run a dos game from it.

Reply 3 of 10, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-10-19, 18:31

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Nic-93 wrote:
but i can acces the files fine in command prompt, and run a dos game from it.

Then it seems to me that the FAT isn't bad. What exactly does scandisk say?

Reply 4 of 10, by Nic-93

Posted on 2016-10-19, 18:54

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simply says the fat cant be repaired and stops after it, so isnt there a program so i could acces it another way?

Reply 5 of 10, by Nic-93

Posted on 2016-10-19, 20:33

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i was honestly loss on words trying to explain this since it is a fat32 extension, but the strange thing like i said is scandisk couldnt repair it and i can read it fine from the dos prompt.

Reply 6 of 10, by Sammy

Posted on 2016-10-19, 20:49

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maybe you can add another HDD as slave and then copy the files from the C: to the slave drive in Dos-Prompt

Reply 7 of 10, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-10-19, 23:15

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I've imaged a bad FAT drive a decade ago and could only access it by running Win98 in a VM with it. WinImage couldn't pull the files and neither could any Windows NT/2000/XP when mounted

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Reply 8 of 10, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-10-20, 03:37

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leileilol wrote:
I've imaged a bad FAT drive a decade ago and could only access it by running Win98 in a VM with it. WinImage couldn't pull the files and neither could any Windows NT/2000/XP when mounted

The last time I had a problem like that, running fdisk /mbr solved the problem.

Reply 9 of 10, by keenmaster486

Posted on 2016-10-20, 04:10

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Sammy wrote:
maybe you can add another HDD as slave and then copy the files from the C: to the slave drive in Dos-Prompt

This is what I would do. And fast. If you can only access the hard drive from DOS, then use what you've got to back it up.

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Reply 10 of 10, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-10-20, 09:15

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Jorpho wrote:
leileilol wrote:
I've imaged a bad FAT drive a decade ago and could only access it by running Win98 in a VM with it. WinImage couldn't pull the files and neither could any Windows NT/2000/XP when mounted
The last time I had a problem like that, running fdisk /mbr solved the problem.

which didn't for me. Same drive also had a linux ext3 partition

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