SEEK ERROR READING DRIVE C

[bygeek]

I'm working on a system with a 2mb hard drive with 2 partitions and a separate 8mb drive. The system was generating "out of space" messages for drive C so I thought I'd resize the partition. Went into Partition Magic, decreased the size of D and increased C. Should be no problem EXCEPT C is a compressed drive. Now it won't boot. Will boot to dos w/startup disk. Files are still intact. Fdisk says C is primary bootable. Tried fdisk /mbr. When I go to c:\windows and type win, it says "seek error reading drive c". OS is win98. NEED HELP PLEASE!!!!

 

[Snickle]

Unfortunately, the one thing not plainly mentioned/emphasized about compressed drives is that you can't mess with them even a little bit unless they have first been decompressed. Compression makes 1 huge file, there's no cluster size concern, that's why you can get a lot on a little drive. The bad news for you is that you will have to get booted to a floppy to have drvspace/dblspace support and try to get your data off to another drive. Long file names may be truncated/lost.

 

[bygeek]

That's what I was afraid of. What is drvspace/dblspace support and how can I use it?

 

[jmatt]

http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/amd/887/rescue/e_index.html

Drive Rescue - the hard drive discovery and emergency tool - freeware

Drive Rescue is a data recovery tool for Windows(R) 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000 users. Additionally,
it can be used as a disk editor.
What Drive Rescue can do for you:

Find any lost and deleted data on your hard disk even if the partition table is lost!
Discover important file system tables of your hard disk, including paritition table, boot
record, FAT and file/directory records.

What Drive Rescue can NOT do for you:

Find any data on a physically damaged hard disk!

 

[bygeek]

Thanks for the tip, jmatt, but this program runs under windows, and I can't boot the system.

 

[jmatt]

Forgot that , have a read of this page & see if it helps .

http://www.geocities.com/politalk/dos/dblwin95.htm