Need help retrieving a file form a crashed hard drive please help

[cesaragustas]

using win98 hard drive will not boot. but can access files through win98 boot disk. only want to find and copy favorites file but cannot find it or copy it.please help if you know about accessing dos files in this manner thank you. Are better yet if you know how to access the bootlog and get the drive to bootup.

 

[aamimd88]

ok go to the dos prompt and type

chdir C:\windows

this will get you into the windows root directory. Then type

chdir C:\windows\favorites

this will get you to the favortes folder in windows directory then to copy to a floppy, just type

copy C:\windows\favorites A:\

and YOU'RE DONE.... Enjoy...

 

[chemos]

cesar>

you can also try booting off the floppy and doing a "sys c:" command. this will make the drive bootable, assuming it's still good. this won't necessarily allow it to boot into windows, however (depending on the severity of the crash).

again, depending on how bad the crash was, you may have to do a scandisk to fix areas of it.

if your favorites folder isn't there, it may have been lost in the crash and you might just have to sift through all the temporary "rebuilt" folders that scandisk creates for you, such as "DIR0001" etc.

good luck!