Recover files from Harddrive

[ftvjr]

I have a laptop (HP6000) with Windows 2K Pro installed. The HD is FAT32 and the unit will no longer complete its boot into W2K. I get the blue screen of death with different error messages each time. My real issue is some of the data. I can boot with a W98 boot disk and get into dos. From there I can navigate through my directories. The files I want to save are larger than will fit on a floppy and I am looking for suggestions as to how I should proceed. I have tried reinstalling W2k in another directory but it fails and says I have a bad HD. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[franklin97355]

I would install a second hard drive as slave (or on the second ide cable) and transfer files to it. I would not try much more on fixing the original drive until I got what I needed off since you may end up making it totally unreadable.

 

[ftvjr]

I am familiar on how to do this on a desktop, how is this done on a laptop? The laptop doesn't have an IDE ribbon etc?

 

[colners]

This is what I would do:

1. Find a second laptop or desktop
2. Find a copy of Laplink (search the 'net for any version that will work in DOS)
You may have to buy from

http://www.laplink.com

or

http://www.laplink.com/products/LLV/overview.asp

3. Get a serial-to-serial or parallel-to-parallel cable and connect either end to each machine.
4. Boot up a copy of Laplink on both machines
5. Use the software to transfer across the files you need from the faulty machine to the other.

This is probably the safest way of ensuring your data doesn't get deleted or more damaged.

Let me know how you get on via the site.

Regards

 

[wolluf]

Have you tried recovery console (then run chkdsk) or repair? Or scandisk from 98 boot floppy?

Other possibility - you can buy IDE adapter to connect laptop HD to PC mobo (they cost c. £5 here in UK). You could then slave drive to PC.

 

[Greatgazzoo]

If you have a second PC or laptop available, then network them together either through a CAT 5 cable or with an rs232 serial cable. Laplink is good but will try to install software onto your win2k laptop which may not work. From personal experience using an rs232 cable to pull the files across works well.

 

[WiredNDC69]

Using a RS232 cable is nice, however the speed is not the best. Old fashioned parallel zip drive using Guest is one option. Though I would agree with many of the other posts and I would get a kit to either slave the laptop hard drive to a Desktop PC. I just purchased one and it actually arrived today, or I would get a kit to alow you to slave the laptop hard drive to another laptop using a PCMCIA connector.

 

[kvo]

I found a HD converter on e-bay when I had a similar problem a couple of years ago. I paid $13US for it and I still use it to help others out. Great investment.

Basically you will be just installing it as a second drive to a PC. Windows 2000 will see both NTFS and FAT32 so it's no problem recovering data.

Go here to see on e-bay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dllViewItem&item=3412134779&category=31534