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EASYRECOVERY PROBLEMS(DOS-VERSION/EMERGE

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by europanorama 2 views

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i tried using an emergency disk of easirecovery to save a deleted partition/whole 520 mb-drive.

i already used easyrecoverys windows-version but at the first attempt deleted the wrong partition instead of the drive. i mixed up the letters. now its time to recover the real problem, the 520mb-drive but using the floppydisk.
i have prepaired and made partition on a 850mb-drive. then i used a pentium 60 with win98a and 540 mb-drive(c). the other drive are on secondary as master and slave.

when i use easyrecovery i can see the deleted files/directories. and mycomputer, i can check these all to recover them to a directory. i would like to recover them to the 850mb-drive. but its imposssible. is this because it has no windows ar because its not on the first channel. maybe the problem-drive(520 mb) should be as master on the first channel? this is the only information i have from ontracks manual. using the emergency disk if i have no more access to windows.

i will try this out. maybe faq-on ontracks site will give answers.

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by bobho

Why is it impossible? What message are you getting from Easy Recovery when you try to recover the files?

Am I correct in reading from your question that you have 2 physical drives: an 850mb drive and a 520mb drive and you are trying to recover the files from the 520mb drive to the 850mb drive.

I have used Easy Recovery in a number of instances and have never had any problems. IMHO it's one of the best recovery tools out there.

DrBob:>)

by europanorama

i could successfully start easyrecovery with the mentioned drives(520 as master on first, 850 as slave on first or master on secondary on a p60 machine. i could see the drives but the 520(deleted partition) had no letter. thats why the 850 was c and d was the virtual drive, carrying the easyrecovery tools.
now comes the additional new identical problems(i tried several times): some directories, like mouse or epson etc could not be written. i reformatted, zeroleveled and reprepaired(partitioned and formatted with dos 6.22-bootdisk).
i tried a new drive 540mb(all checked and ok), same write-problem. my problem was, that i had no big drive with windows installed available. i do not want to take any risk anymore after i have deleted a partition there and could recover within windows.
now i will install a 3gb-drive with windows 98se(850 seem to be too small for win98se, maybe i should use version A)- but a new problem is here. i can see a primary and extended partition.
its says below complete harddisk uses 504mb. should i ignore this and install win98se anyhow? i am afraid i will have only 504mb at the end with no possibility to get access of the remaining hdd. then i will use easyrecovery within windows and recover the 520mb-dta to a partition. maybe i have a corrupted emergency disk. i will recreate a new and try again before doing the windows-preocedure. ontracks tool are good, there msut be a mistake somewhere. i could not find a faq or a discussion-group concerningontrack-only-products.

by europanorama

i have now a new version 5.01 emergency disk.
if it does not work i will setup the 3gb again using ontrack diskmanager, partition magic did not work telling the 3gb-disk is too big for the bios.

by bobho

It could simply be that those directories cannot be recovered. I've found that Easy Recovery can recover about 95% or more of the files from a drive. There are a number of issues that affect recovery. If the files in the directories are highly fragmented then the possibility to recover those files becomes less.

As long as the drive you are recovering the files to (your 850mb drive) has the same amount of space (or more) than the drive you are recovering from (your 520mb drive) then Easy Recovery will recover what it can. I have found that doing a DOS recovery sometimes does not pick up all of the long file names, but in some instances that is the only option. Doing a Windows recovery works much better for long file names.

Also, make sure that you have the latest updates for Easy Recovery. Go to Ontrack's website and download any updates or patches for your version.

If you have the time to get a bigger drive, install windows on it, install Easy Recovery for windows and try that then I say do it.

One other thing to consider. You might want to choose what files/folders to recover. You really do not need directories like the TEMP directory and the Temporary Internet File directory. Depending when you last cleaned theseout if you choose to recovery them you will just be recovering junk anyway. You might save yourself alot of disk space by skipping them.

DrBob:>)

by europanorama

by using newest version i could see all drive-letters(which was not the case on version 5.01). overwriting the wrong drive would be desastrous! i have finally ghosted the drive to an identical one(this could also confuse when all parameters are identical and you mix up master and slave. it does not matter if source is slave or master. i had to do this because the drive i have recovered data had errors which could only be repaired with zero level formatting.

by europanorama

thanks a lot. i had the same ideas.

1. i could recover my data(with never version 6.0-5.01 would also have worked.but maybe not the whole disk as you mentioned, so i will not try rebooting.
2. i have no long file-names. its a win311-system. rockstable. maybe i have really not used defrag often enough. btw: i had to uncheck some directories because some files could not be written. this would mean,all files which had not been recovered in that directories until that moment, will stay like this, right?

3. i had i mind setting up a bigger drive with win98a but 850 would be too small and i had troubles with 3gb on the pentium 60. maybe ontrack diskmanager would have helped.

so, if i see the 504 mb-limits in fdisk this would not meani cannot setup the disk with ontrack

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