Getting files back....

[blockers]

Hi.

I wanted to copy all my old files onto my new 60gb hard drive. So i plugged it into the old computer, and went to copy across the files, some 13gb. But all i found was a FOUND.000 file, which i cannot open. It says it is in use, however this hard drive does not have the windows install on it.

Is there anyway to get my data back?

Cheers
Will

[directhex]

found.000 is data recovered by scandisk

can't think of how this may or may not be useful though

[robbiehall]

What happened to the old disk?

Rob

[blockers]

I formatted in the end as i couldnt see anyway to get it working again.... sometimes i hate hard drives...

[Ravens Nest]

Perhap you're old drive was formated in NTFS or Fat32 and you plugged it into you old computer which had 95/98/se/me and was formated to FAT16 or 32.

Just guessing, what do you think happened then blockers?

[blockers]

Well there were 3 hard drives involved i think.
1 = 60gb, with win2k (NTFS)
2 = 20gb, with win2k (NTFS)
3 = 15gb, just a blank (FAT32)

I copied the files to the 15gb, and the 20gb. I unplugged my drive and booted up with the 20gb and 15gb. However all i could see on the 15gb was the FOUND.000 file...

I cant remember the exact situation, but it was something along the lines of that. Dont know if i told it boot some and ther was a conflict with drivers for the motherboard, and that some how corrupted it.

After a format its now ok, except i lost my data.
No doubt it will happen again....

Will