Hard drive is slowly dieing !! help please

[hellomcfly]

well in my dads old laptop the harddrive is makeing more and more strange noises and has trouble booting sometimes. as of right now all i need to do is recover 1 file about 1meg roughly (which is sooooooo important for his work - nuthing else matters) right now i booted it off a Windows 98 startup disk and located the file i need in DOS. now how do i copy this file to a floppy (it has been soo long) or are there any other methods of getting this file off without sending it to drive savers ??

thanks soo much .. now i need to pound into my dad's brain BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP and BACKUP !!!!!!!!!

 

[FearoftheNight]

C:\yourdirectory copy file.*** a:\
From the prompt where it is. Copy the name of file.extension a:\.
Hope it helps.

 

[hellomcfly]

so ..

the file is called Schools.mdb (microsoft access) and is 1,290,240

C:\My Documents\Clients> Copy Schools.MDB a:\

??

 

[MercenaryForHire]

***confirmed *** That'll do it.

Thank you for being intelligent enough to back up before the drive dies, instead of bringing one to me that won't even be recognized and expect me to pull a 100% recovery out of my ass.

</rant>

- M4H

 

[hellomcfly]

sweet this is working like a charm !! thanks !

now anyone remeber the command to only show alittle bit of a directory at a time ? dir goes to fast to see the stuff at the begining

after this little project is over im gona brush up on my DOS again i promise lol

 

[RReed]

you can do "dir /w /p" that will show it "/w - wide" and "/p - page". after each page you hit the space bar or any key to go to the next page.