Re: Boot Floppy

Claus wrote:
Good question. It's a tiny 5 year old Toshiba that according to the
owner was purchased in Japan. I see it as a challenge but so far I
haven't gotten any further than the C drive. Ran a read only chkdsk
and there are no bad sectors. So if I would get my hands on some
small recovery tool that runs off a floppy I would have a good chance
to get the files back. I googled too and tested a few that claimed
booting from floppy - so far I couldn't find any that was really
doing it. The laptop has 512 RAM so even if I could load from several
floppies I would have some hope.

Oh boy. One of those "time sinks" eh? Well, might consider Henry's other
suggestion about pulling the HD and sticking it in a USB enclosure and
repairing it on other hardware.



Claus wrote:
Thanks KJ,

The darn thing doesn't support USB CD. I have a floppy that allows
write and I get in but I need something that will undelete those
darn files in the C root.

Google shows quite a few but I don't have experience with any of
them. Sorry. How the heck did that laptop get built with XP without
a CD/DVD (PXE perhaps)?


Claus wrote:
Henry,

I just had a look at it and it's not what I'm searching for. I was
after a program that would boot off a floppy, make the C drive
accessible and the recover deleted files. With GetDataBack (if I
understand it right) I would mount the laptop drive remotely.

Claus,

You'd probably be better off getting a USB CD drive if your laptop
supports booting it. If your XP was installed using NTFS (as it
should be) then you are going to have a problem reading let alone
writting to the hard drive (without BartPe / WinPE). NTFSDOS will
let you read the filesystem, but not write to it. I don't know if
NTFSDOS Pro is still around or not.

You need a Bart's PE Disk
and a copy of GetDataBack.

--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}


"Claus" <cjobes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does anybody know of a good file recovery tool that can boot
from a floppy? Laptop doesn't have a CDROM and the user seemed
to have deleted all files in the C root on his XP Pro.

Thanks

--
Claus

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/kj

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/kj

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/kj


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