Uh-Oh

Subject: Urgent hard disk crisis!
Posted on: 16-Sep-06 17:21

I accidentally used a raw floppy copy program and raw copied a floppy onto my hard disk, and it has re-written the hard disk binary and it thinks its a floppy disk as it says it as 1430 something KB etc. is there any fix for this? Or do I have to re-format? eeeek help!

Many Thanks,
Subject: Re: Urgent hard disk crisis!
Posted on: 16-Sep-06 17:45

I suspect you will have to reformat, and then restore your most recent backup.

Subject: Re: Urgent hard disk crisis!
Posted on: 16-Sep-06 17:51
I really hope not, I haven't backed up this week yet and some very important files lie on it, the situation is as follows ...

Many Thanks,

We Laugh At Our Clients

We do!

Client: "You know how you've been encouraging me to do those backups?"

Consultant: "Yes"

Client: "Well I'd like to get started as soon as possible. This morning, if you could come over right away."

Consultant: "OK. We'll sit down and map out a plan".

Client: "No, I don't want to plan, I want to get it done, before lunch if possible. Our system crashed last night, and I want one of those backups made so that we can get back all of our data and get back into business after lunch.

Consultant: (laughs)

A Simple Test

Here’s something you can do right now to learn about your own computer. And it won’t change anything at all on your copmputer; it’s what we call a “read-only” test:

Use the Start, Run at the bottom left corner of your screen and type “Command” without the quotes. Confirm.

A Gool Old DOS window will open up. Yayaaay!

At that DOS prompt, type the following command and press enter:
xcopy c:\*.* a: /a /s /l
Watch it run.

When it finishes you’ll see a summary like this (my screen shot indicates that 20818 files are waiting to be backed up)

Now to be sure that indicates a great many Windows and Program files, but it gives you some idea of what’s waiting to be lost.

Or you could use the DIR command:
dir c:\*.* /aa /s
and get results like this: