Seagate 20 gig hard drive. Win Me would not boot.
I tried it on my computer with a IDE to USB connector, which normally I can view data on the drive and back it up. Hard drive was recognised but only had one folder in it which was empty. Right clicked for properties and said 6 gig used and approx 14 free. So obviously there is data on drive. I then attached the hard drive to another computer as a slave drive and same thing only one folder shows up. I tried Seagate diagnostic boot up discs which would only do a file and fat diagnostic report, this came up with critical errors. I ran Windows Scan disk from Dos, came up with heaps of errors, mostly DIRS, which it asked to repair, so I said yes.
Now when I boot up with drive attached as slave all I can see is heaps of DIR files, nothing else. Owner does not want to format drive as needs Data in my documents. Okay, now is it still possible to find this data in amongst all these DIR files. If I open them they are all in Binary. Can I convert these. Is there a repair utility that I can use. What would happen if I try to re-install Win Me would it convert these folders. Thank you for your help
