Summary: I cruised my local thrift store today and found a ton of 5.25 inch 360k and 1.2mb disks with various software titles like Tandy DOS, Oregon Trail, WP4...
Summary: Try the data recovery program available from my web page. It will ask you to create 2 diskettes. Boot using diskette 1. Be prepared to give it plen...
Summary: Not unless you use a Data Recovery Company! I do not think you can recover from this yourself. I do hope I am wrong, and someone here says "Oh yes you...
Summary: Try the data recovery software from my web page. I used it to to recover a hard drive I purchased that had been formatted blank. It worked great in ...
Summary: One day I was formatting my floppy disk in DOS and I accidentally put format drive C instead of format drive A. My computer now say “No operating syst...
Summary: a) This is a dos forum b) You should have had the data backed up, as CD writing is extremely unreliable. c) Really doubt you can recover that. - W0...
Summary: "Does it sound like the drive is damaged?" Well, it did two days ago, so... that's still a 'yeah' To repeat: data recovery or repair is best attempte...
Summary: Im sorry to say that it sounds like a dead one. Unless you want to spend 100s of Bucks sending it to a data recovery company, I would bite the bullet ...
Summary: Here is a brain teaser for you!!! picture this scenario: you have a 20gb drive, split into 4 partitions (C: D: E: and F:) of various sizes (full of da...
Summary: Undelete command is not available with Windows XP. If you can get a DOS 6.22 system disk containing the start up file, boot ur computer with that disk...
Summary: There's a HUGE number of disk editing utilities, many of them free and quite cool. However, each one tends to have its own quirks, strengths, and wea...
Summary: I think you would have an easier time if you just connect the CD burner to the system. Also if you have a RAID system it should map out the bad drive....
Summary: After time electro/mechanical components stop functioning through fare ware and tare hence the need to backup data. You did back it up? I managed to g...
Summary: You could try norton disk doctor (search ftpsearch.lycos.com for ndd.exe) It may help... If you have written anything to the harddrive since removing...
Summary: Try Novell Data Recovery from www.ontrack.com or simply load netbasic, type shell, and use the copy command in the netbasic command prompt. Works wit...
Summary: I have older business apps and customer data files that were compressed in MSBACKUP for MSDOS 6.0 and I forgot the damn password. I now use Windows X...
Summary: Greetings! I have a question about bootable cd's, particularly as relates to no emulation mode... I've been working on making a live cd of Win95 for d...
Summary: Another big reason I use FAT16 is for compatibility. FAT16 is supported by almost every version of PC-DOS and MS-DOS (yes, there actually were versio...
Summary: First, if you don't mind losing your data, just run fdisk again and make a primary dos partition. If you need your data back, try the data recovery ...
Summary: DOS does indeed support multiple primary DOS partitions. If you create four primary DOS partitions on a disk, DOS will be able to access all of them,...
Summary: I think you're saying there's a 2GB FAT32 logical partition inside a hidden extended partition on your hard disk. If this is the case, then, no, you...
Summary: I assume you don't want to lose what you have on the disk. Your only option is probably to try and set up the disk as a second drive in a machine, an...