Boot from win 98 disk truncates file names

[kjacobs]

I had a hard drive whose partition table got corrupted. It is no longer recognized in Windows (2000) as a valid drive (Do you wish to format, etc). I CAN, however, boot with a Win 98 diskette and DOS sees the hard drive. I want to copy selected files to another win 2000 hard drive but because of the win 98 boot, the file names are truncated to the 8 character limit. Can I boot up with something else to see the long file names and preserve them when copying. I have Ghost and XXCOPY. Win 2000 boot floppies?

Thanks.

 

[rumptis]

Windows 98 isn't going to work because you need the long file names plus if its a NTFS drive then 98 won't be able to read it at all. I would build yourself a Bartpe disk and see if you can get what you need off of the drive. Here is a link.

BartPE

 

[kjacobs]

Thanks but reading the info it sounds like I need XP to create it. I only have Win 2000 Pro.

 

[rustynails]

I would try slaving the hard drive in another machine running w2k or xp for that matter. if win98 is seeing the partion, xp or 2k should see it. However that does not mean ntfs may be hosed and unable to be read by the standard means. If this data is crucial you can send off to companies that will crack the drive and extract the data, for fairly cheap.

~nails

 

[xgsound]

Seems to me if a win98 startup floppy sees the data, that it is fat32. If that is true, then you could take it to any working machine as a slave drive (if under 126g) to xfer the wanted files to cd.

But did you say that win 2000 doesn't detect the drive? Perhaps some controller or cable problem or the bios got changed from auto detect to none?

I'm not familiar with win 2000 , but some of the utilities on "ultimate boot cd" could help.

That's about all I can help.


Jim

 

[kjacobs]

Originally posted by: rustynails
I would try slaving the hard drive in another machine running w2k or xp for that matter. if win98 is seeing the partion, xp or 2k should see it. However that does not mean ntfs may be hosed and unable to be read by the standard means. If this data is crucial you can send off to companies that will crack the drive and extract the data, for fairly cheap.

~nails

Thanks; I should have been more specific. I did install it as a slave on w Win2000 machine. Windows does not recognize it but when I boot with a win98 diskette I can see the drive and files.