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by aseem_kumar_2001

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I have windows 98 on c drive. I was working in word when it crased. Then i restarted the system. After that the windows was not loading up. when i tried to run scandisk from a bootable floppy it gave "Error in FAT" and stopped.
though i can access my c drive through windows 2000 (my second OS)
Also some days back windows gave error that my disk (c drive) might have developed bad sectors but on scanning the drive no bad sectors were found.
Now is there any way i can recover the FAT without reinstalling the OS.
Any tool which will help in restoring the FAT.
Thank You

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by tech_wiz03

Don't use scandisk for this type of problem. You need a good quality disaster recovery program and almost all are much better than scandisks simple tests.

If you see and readback C: from win2k then backoff any important data from the drive then reformat drive and reinstall win98. Of course this will mean putting back the win2k loader.

by aseem_kumar_2001

Partition magic doesnot works
Gives drive geometry error while starting

need a tool to restore fat from its secondry copy

by aseem_kumar_2001

How will i restore the boot loader without reinstalling the win2k
Is it possible to just backup the boot.ini file and the ntloader.
Or any other way to backup the boot loader
Isn't there any utility available which will restore the FAT from its secondry copy

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