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Number   :  7146
Date     :  2004-02-04
Author   :  sjarnold11
Subject  :  File Recovery and backup
Size(KB) :  1


I stumbled upon this program by doing a Google search, and I'm hoping 
that it will help solve my problem...here'goes...

I have a hard drive that has what I call a "partial head crash." The 
drive head is physically hitting the disk (or that's what it sounds 
like) but only sometimes, not all the time. 

I start up my PC on the bad disk, it tell me windows(XP) was shutdown 
imporperly and how would I like to boot, no matter which way I choose 
it won't do it. It restartes itself after a few seconds, so getting 
into XP is out of the question.

I now have a secondary drive (set up as the master) that I installed 
XP onto, and I can boot into that. But when I go back to try to read 
the bad one via Explorer it tells me the disk is unreadable (big 
surprise). So that's out...

Now, if I create a system disk through XP and boot off that I can get 
a 'C:\>' and I can see all my files and copy them with use of 'copy' 
DOS command to the new drive. Long and tedious.

I have also tried booting off a DOS 6.x boot disk and i can get into 
DOS but it dosn't recognise any of my my hard disks.

My question is, will this program work at that command prompt. I 
have tired different versions of XCopy and had no luck with them. 
Also, DOS has a limitation of only going so many directores deep, is 
this going to be a problem with XXCopy?

Any help would be greatly appericated, I really need to get the data 
off this drive, and yes...next time I will backup. :-/



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