Its a notebook PC. I'm getting a warranty replacement of the drive, but beforehand I need to try and get a few files off, they will probably fit on a floppy.
The PC (Windows 98) boots, but scandisk fails, the BIOS self-diag fails. If I let it run, it goes thrugh the motions like its going to boot, just goes extremely slow, about 40 minutes after boot it finally gets to the wallpaper (with no icons, taskbar, etc) then stops, but mouse moves.
Tried a ghost boot disk to make an image of it. Ghost errors out indicating bad sector. There's a good chance the data I need isn't on the bad sector, anyone know any freeware recovery I could try to make a bootdisk and copy these files off?
The PC (Windows 98) boots, but scandisk fails, the BIOS self-diag fails. If I let it run, it goes thrugh the motions like its going to boot, just goes extremely slow, about 40 minutes after boot it finally gets to the wallpaper (with no icons, taskbar, etc) then stops, but mouse moves.
Tried a ghost boot disk to make an image of it. Ghost errors out indicating bad sector. There's a good chance the data I need isn't on the bad sector, anyone know any freeware recovery I could try to make a bootdisk and copy these files off?
