[Discussion] DOS Critical Error

[Thomas Clayton]

Brian,

This, as I see it, is first and foremost a RECOVERY situation for a client of yours (maybe, your full time employer).

My suggestion to you is: do you HAVE .. a "little" (and older) drive EMPTY that ALL the files will fit upon?
If so, USE IT, for another recovery attempt.

The recovery of the lost files is of FIRST importance. We'll figure what is going on with the gigantic NEW drive, later.

I have 10GB PATA HDDs right next to my elbow and could get, and send to you, 20s, or 40s IF you require them. They'd be checked as to a FAT32 or an NTFS (Win2K) format was working - but not more checks than that.

I DO think something IS going on with the ABSOLUTE size of your gigantic drive. I can't tell whether it is the computer's BIOS, your (our?) OS (the one that you ARE using), or THE drive, itself.


Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton



--- On Thu, 9/3/09, Brian Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com> wrote:

> From: Brian Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] DOS Critical Error
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 10:24 PM
> Boot Manager is Primary
> The first 'real' partition is primary, all others are
> logical.
> The customer bought the drive because he couldn't get an 80
> (my recommendation) and because the OS/2 system will
> be replaced within a year by a Windows system. (Have to do
> because the laboratory software only runs on Windows).
> He said the difference in cost between an 800 GB drive and
> a 500 was minimal so he selected the larger.
> 
> Some additional background.
> 
> I accidently deleted at the data on another drive and tried
> to recover (using DFSEE) the data to the last partition on
> the drive
> in question.  The recovery went well for about 150,000
> files and then I began to get errors in DFSEE saying it
> couldn't find the
> directory to save the data to - it was there.
> 
> I have been trying to save files to this
> drive/partition/folder and can't do it except to the root.
> I've tested it with short file names and long.
> 
> 
> Brian Grawburg