Data Recovery..

[themaster]

Got a old DOS FAT16 or FAT12 box that was running windows 3.1 on a 160 mb hard drive, the person using it hasn't backed up his data in 5 years..

And as such his data file has become corrupted.

Is there a chance I can find some kind of .tmp file with all his data or any easy fix idea on data corruption he was using some custom application called M.Y.O.B.

[s3pHiX]

A very good program for Data Recovery is GetBackData for FAT32/NTFS found here..... Download It's $69, but is well worth the money.

I use it here in our service shop to retrieve data, and has worked about every time.

Thanks,

[Quasar2112]

Get Spinrite.

The problem could be a hardware failure. If so, Spinrite can usually fix it long enough to get the data off it.

If the problem really is data corruption, than hook the drive up to another box and get a good image of the drive. That way you can try different techniques against the disk to try to get the data off. A good drive image tool is Drive Image XML (name of the software).

[Prophecy]

There are tons of files you could use. I mean Hard Drive Recovery is a huge thing now a days.

Ive used programs like

Acronis

Recuva

Stellar

A ton of live cd's

got some knopixx revisions

helios

Your best bet is to find someone who has some expirence if its just a logical error its possible