read old fat16 dos disk with xp

[joebloeonthego]

only a few random files show up, none of the dos operating system files or the data. I heard XP brilliantly can't read fat16, but I tried on a '98 machine and the exact same files were there (which aren't the right ones at all).

I also tried recovery software (recover deleted files - which is what I originally wanted to do, recover files I accidentally deleted on the dos machine) but it only found a bunch of previously deleted win95 files.

At this point, I'm not worried about recovering what I deleted, but I would like to copy all the files (dos files) over to another machine (preferably an XP one, but a '98 one will do)

any suggestions? thanx.

 

[edfair]

I've not noticed that there is a problem with XP handling FAT16 stuff. It may be that I haven't done it enough to run across the problem.

IIRC it was a matter of putting the drive as slave on primary of master on secondary and then copying from the command prompt. But I also suspect that I could have done a drag/drop.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[joebloeonthego]

does any of this make any sense???(taken from my post elsewhere)

I tried it in a win98 machine and got the same result as in XP. it's 540mb), and the files that show up are:
command.com
dblspace.000
dblspace.bin
dblspace.ini
file0001.chk 2, 3
io.sys
msdos.sys


I tried dblspace /list and is in fact a compressed C drive, with D - G available for dblspace, and then J as the rest of the disk.

Putting the drive in it's own computer, and using a dos boot disk, I get the files listed above (command.com, etc.), not the compressed drive.

Putting the disk in my computer, trying to use any sort of boot disk (hirens 9.4) it hangs. Unplug the hard-drive, and it starts right away. Disk-Image floppy boot, also hangs if this possessed hard-drive is connected.

the computer the hard drive is from, has only one IDE slot (on a daughter-board of some kind), and a soundcard with a few IDEs to which the non-functional CD-ROM is attached. Perhaps if I got that cd-rom working I could use the hirens bootdisk to recover the few text files? But I still want to be able to back up the whole drive...

I can't help but think I'm missing something here... it should not be this difficult to back up a disk! (then I'll worry about the recovery...)
thanx again for all the help.

 

[Freestone]

Have you tried booting with a DOS 6 diskette and with the hard drive installed? If the files in question reside on a compressed volume then I am fairly certain that DBLSPACE will have to be active in order to get them uncompressed back into a usuable form.

 

[Lemon13]

Putting the drive in it's own computer, and using a dos boot disk, I get the files listed above (command.com, etc.), not the compressed drive."
thats normal, u have 2 mount the compressed file

DBLSPACE /MOUNT[=nnn] Drive1: [/NEWDRIVE=Drive2:]

drive1 = the drive the compressed file is on
drive2 = the drive the compressed file is associated with, if you dont give that parameter the next free drive will be assigned

i.e to load the compressed file dblspace.001 on drive d: use

dblspace /mount=001 d:

 

[joebloeonthego]

I can't find dblspace.exe anywhere. Not on any dos boot disks, not on the win98 CD... closest I've come is dblspace.bin on a dos boot disk. Anyone know where I can get it?

 

[Lemon13]

here u can download dos for free

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...97-b7e5-4b31-badb-ddaac771295f&DisplayLang=en

 

[linney]

See if you can convert the elusive DblSpace to DriveSpace format.

DoubleSpace Conversion Kit: Description & How to Obtain

http://kbalertz.com/117806/DoubleSpace-Conversion-Description-Obtain.aspx

Booting from compressed drive

http://www.mcse.ms/showthread.php?t=1651263

DBLSPACE.INI File Settings

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=100536