Tried to backup files in DOS to a folder, all the files went into 1 big file. .

[Pacinamac23]

I couldn't boot windows so I loaded a DOS boot disk and did a copy C:\mydocuments\*.* D:\docbak

Basically, I have one big file on my D drive now called docbak, I guess it didn't automatically make a director called docbak like I had hoped. Anyone know of a method by which I can get the files back from the one big docbak file I have now?

 

[DaveSimmons]

nope, they've been mashed together and there is no embedded directory to pull them apart.

(it's theoretically possible to pick apart the contents based on examining file headers and using the filetypes to find the file ends, but that's if you had an unlimited budget for the data recovery.)

 

[Pacinamac23]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
nope, they've been mashed together and there is no embedded directory to pull them apart.

(it's theoretically possible to pick apart the contents based on examining file headers and using the filetypes to find the file ends, but that's if you had an unlimited budget for the data recovery.)

Oh snap, that is not what I wanted to hear. There were some really important files in there that I needed. . . .

 

[bunker]

Did you already blow away the C: drive? If not just boot with the boot disk again and do this:

cd d:
mkdir docback
copy C:\mydocuments\*.* D:\docbak\

If you did blow away C:, then you're pretty much S.O.L.

 

[Pacinamac23]

Originally posted by: bunker
Did you already blow away the C: drive? If not just boot with the boot disk again and do this:

cd d:
mkdir docback
copy C:\mydocuments\*.* D:\docbak\

If you did blow away C:, then you're pretty much S.O.L.

Yep, C:\ has been blown away, my mom is gonna kill me, all her tax information was on there.

 

[MrScott81]

well....how has your c drive been blown away? there is a program called GetDataBackNTFS (I think there's one for FAT too), that will let you get stuff back even if the drive has been formatted, partitions deleted, and whatnot....hopefully you have not written stuff over it already! Good luck.