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RETRIEVE FILES FROM A COMMPRESSED DRIVE
Name: Tim Date: August 15, 2000 at 03:06:08 Pacific
Comment:
I compressed a hard drive to give me more space as I could not afford a new one. one day I turned on the computer and the mounted drive had gone and i was left with a drive with the file drvspace.000. The HD has developed bad sectors and drivespace won't mount the drive and scandisk would fix the problem. I need these files. Is there any other way to get them back. Help much appreciated.
Name: Me Date: August 15, 2000 at 05:12:37 Pacific
Reply:
This is a terrible way to learn a lesson. You should know the first 3 rules of computing. 1. Backup 2. Backup 3. BACKUP!!!!
Fdisk, format and start again buddy, you're basically scr*wed
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Response Number 2
Name: Tim Date: August 15, 2000 at 05:54:27 Pacific
Reply:
Is there a way to manually mount the drive by changing files (i.e. config files or ini files) to fool the computer that the drive is mounted and so that the drive is in the same state as before with files being able to be accessed and still with bad sectors.
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