GoldKey
09-19-2003, 10:59 PM
Here is the situation and I am hoping someone has an idea I have not thought of.
My boss brings me her personal Dell laptop that is a few years old. The OS (Windows ME :roll: ) is hosed and it won't boot. Boot up with a 98 boot disk and get a DOS prompt for a: and c: . Can't run a full dir for c:. It will show the files, but just hangs when calculating the space. Hangs the same way when trying to run a scandisk of the drive. Dell support wants her to format the drive and reinstall. I tried a reinstall without formatting and it just hangs at the scandisk. Plus she has data that was not backed up that she really wants, and I can access and copy the files from C to A. BUT, the files she needs are all bigger than 1.44 MB. Since I am stuck at a basic dos prompt, I cant use any external devices or write to a CD. I went to buy one of those Flashpath FD to MMC card converters so I could have a larger FD, but the package said a driver was required to be able to use it. I could not find a dos based zip program or a program that would split the larger files into multiple smaller files that would actually work. The last things I can think of are to try and find an adapter that will allow a notebook HD to be hooked into another PC, or have her go to a data recovery service.
My boss brings me her personal Dell laptop that is a few years old. The OS (Windows ME :roll: ) is hosed and it won't boot. Boot up with a 98 boot disk and get a DOS prompt for a: and c: . Can't run a full dir for c:. It will show the files, but just hangs when calculating the space. Hangs the same way when trying to run a scandisk of the drive. Dell support wants her to format the drive and reinstall. I tried a reinstall without formatting and it just hangs at the scandisk. Plus she has data that was not backed up that she really wants, and I can access and copy the files from C to A. BUT, the files she needs are all bigger than 1.44 MB. Since I am stuck at a basic dos prompt, I cant use any external devices or write to a CD. I went to buy one of those Flashpath FD to MMC card converters so I could have a larger FD, but the package said a driver was required to be able to use it. I could not find a dos based zip program or a program that would split the larger files into multiple smaller files that would actually work. The last things I can think of are to try and find an adapter that will allow a notebook HD to be hooked into another PC, or have her go to a data recovery service.