Corrupted FAT, Win98SE
First thing I would do boot in from the Ontrack boot disk. If you can still get access to your 
and E: copy all you data over to the other paritions. It may take some time to remember where all your data is and move them.
Then I would get anotherHD set it up as a Primary master and move the other to the Secondry IDE control, leave as a master. If you don't have a secondry connection, than just leave the troubled HD off till you install Windows again. If you have a PC that does not support LBA which you can find in the BIOS then you would have to use Ontrack setup, thats only if the HD is larger then 528 MB. Then reinstall all your appication (Programs).
After that I would shut down the PC and disconnect the CD-ROM and connect your Troubled HD, don't forget to set the HD to Slave. ONLY DO THIS, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A SECONDARY IDE CONNECTOR.
Auto Detect it.
When back into Windows copy the data back to it's Appications.
Hope this will help
Alvin
Corrupted FAT, Win98SE
Hello again,
I forgot to mention. I usually save all my data away from C
have a partition or second HD. save them away from C some appication you can config to do that and others that con't config to do it copy them over after you save them.
Ido that because there is alot better chance if the C crushing the the non OS drive.
Alvin
Corrupted FAT, Win98SE
When I boot the system with Win 98 boot disk, C: has some files, but is not readable in English just some funny letters like Greek symbols, the other partitions D & E is readable in English. However, when I boot with boot disk from Ontrack SystemSuite, C files is perfectly readable, except my CDRom is not accessible.
(a) Howcould I fix the FAT.
(b) Can someone also point me in the right direction as to how I can move/copy my valuable data files from this hard drive before reformatting.
Please help, I have over 4 years of business info on this hard drive. Thanks in advance.
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