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Windows 98 Problem solving for the Windows 98 Operating System |
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After converting what does your disk look like now? Are you able to access sny of the data at all?
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I don't want to open up a can of worms here as it looks like Murf has things well in hand. I just wanted to ask if maybe they have tired to mount the fat16 partition with linux. You can mount fat16 in linux and maybe be able ti extract the data then do away with the useless partition.
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bAdWaYz
I am not familiar with Linux, maybe explain how to do that. He will be back on line later this evening. He has Linux on it. |
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Fat32win
Thank you Joe,
I have recieved your program, Should I run it on D: Drive, Or any drive, Is there any possibility that it would affect my data? I have bought a software called GetDataBack, which did show all of my files, Then I recovered many of files, Out of which approx 95% files were CURRUPT, So I wasted my $69, Is there any software which I should try before, converting my disk or converting to fat32 will definately recover my data ( I was little concerned by Jaak's Post ) ??? Please Guide Thank You, |
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About Linux Mounting
Hello badwayz,
The first thing I did was, to try accessing my partition through linux, As my linux partition was also gone, I tried Knoppixx(which runs from CD), but It also showed my drives same ways as windows did. My original mandrake linux is now gone, but I still have Knoppix 3.7, can it help anyway? Last edited by ruab; February 28th, 2005 at 04:37 AM. |
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Just read up on GetDataBack, pretty powerful program. Appears that when Windows 98 tried to install, it somehow converted your drive to FAT 16, I do not know how, but somehow it did. It may of damaged data in the process.
Not familiar at all with Linux, what I knoiw about Linuz you can put in an aspirin bottle and it would get lost in there, so appears you are, maybe try to mount the drive before trying to convert it as suggested by bAdWaYz. Might be able to recover some other data, if not try converting it, what do you have to loose at this point. |
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I ran fat32win
I selected D: Drive, And I got the message that, "This drive is already a Fat32 drive", when I clicked Scan. What should I do? Last edited by ruab; February 28th, 2005 at 04:56 AM. |
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Wow, this is unbelievable. Run FDISK again has anything changed from the first time??
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Hello murf,
I again ran fdisk, everything is exactly same, And I still get the error on fat32win It actually recognize the D: Drive as FAT32. This like this D: FAT32 4102MB |
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In "My Computer" the "D" partition is not seen now?
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It's exactly the same as it was in previous screenshot
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I am still befundled on the FAT 16 vice FAT 32. I have seen this happen with the CIH virus. There is a FREE tool out there, that maybe you should try on the D drive:
http://www.grc.com/fix-cih.htm |
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All I could achive is failure
Hello Murf,
I tried this tool too, got one more failure(my god what happened to my system, I was really living happily before) This is what I got When I clicked Ignore, and proceeded after two steps, I got this : God bless computers. |
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Oh well was worth a shot.
Lets recap as this is getting long. You have one hard drive 80GB and it has three partitions (at least it did) Partition 1 C: Windows XP (34GB) Partition 2 D: Non O/S (36GB) Partition 3: Linux (4.5GB) Is/was this drive E:? FDISK shows the following: C: 35.4GB FAT 32 D: 40.5GB FAT 32 Non-Dos (Linux) 447MB Windos XP shows: C: 37.7GB D: 39.55GB Non-Dos (Linux) 447MB Partition Magic shows: C: 35.4GB FAT 32 D: 40.4GB FAT Partition Table Doctor Shows C: 35.4GB FAT 32 Win XP D: 4110KB FAT 32 Free Space: 36.3GB Very confusing, each program see's something different. Although it appears that the D: partition is there you cannot access it. Is this where we are??? |
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Let me take a wild stab here;
1. Click START then RUN 2. In the Open box type cmd, then click OK 3. At the command prompt, type the following mountVol /D and then press enter |
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