Does anyone know of a free data recovery program for xp and ntfs that will do multiple attempts to copy data? I have a system with the email files corrupt, and the corruption seems persistent but semi-random, ie, I think if a program would try over and over it could eventually copy the data. I remember things like this in the DOS days, but I'm a little out of touch with utilities these days. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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free data recovery program?
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What are you using for email? Outlook, Outlook Express something else. If your using a MS product have you tried any of the built in repair utilties you may want to try.
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What file type (extension) are you talking about here?
Have you tried running ChkDsk to check your drive for errors. Right-click your Drive icon/ Properties/ Tools/ Error Checking. Select both boxes.
Xcopy is a Command Prompt copy tool.
While copying, your added instructions (/c/h/e/k/r), that are called "switches", instruct the computer to copy attributes, read-only files, all sub-directories, hidden files, system files and to ignore errors.
/s Copies directories and subdirectories except empty ones.
/e Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.
/v Verifies each new file.
/y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.
/h Copies hidden and system files also.
/c Continues copying even if errors occur.
xcopy /? at a Command Prompt shows all Switches shows all of this.
The only way I can think of copying and copying and copying....is to create a batch file to copy your file and make it loop continuously until you stop it or run out of disk space.
Have you tried running ChkDsk to check your drive for errors. Right-click your Drive icon/ Properties/ Tools/ Error Checking. Select both boxes.
Xcopy is a Command Prompt copy tool.
While copying, your added instructions (/c/h/e/k/r), that are called "switches", instruct the computer to copy attributes, read-only files, all sub-directories, hidden files, system files and to ignore errors.
/s Copies directories and subdirectories except empty ones.
/e Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.
/v Verifies each new file.
/y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.
/h Copies hidden and system files also.
/c Continues copying even if errors occur.
xcopy /? at a Command Prompt shows all Switches shows all of this.
The only way I can think of copying and copying and copying....is to create a batch file to copy your file and make it loop continuously until you stop it or run out of disk space.
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