Bad experience outcome

[luke]

Hi all again,

Following my PC conckouts & subsequent attempt to reinstall winXP resulting in the loss of 4 partitions, it worked OK on C:\win98. for word,emails, scan, print etc.

The remaining 71gb extended prtn I created and formated 4 logical prtns, but could not revive winXP nor the contents of the original lost 4 partns.

Finally formated and partitioned the whole HD in 5 equals again.

Win98 went in, but XP will not install.

The worst now is that of all the saves and backups I did over the last year or two on CD-Rs, using Easy CD creator, only one or two CDs work and then only a few things could be salvaged out of them.

When I try to restore or open WinZiped files I get :-

".....corrupt setup .cab...." or "...ziped data damaged, CRC is
df73e94e instead of e18a60fc...." e.t.c

Some of those were made with Genie Backup Manager, or win98 Backup.

The zips were made early on winzip8 & later wz9.

I tried both now with no success, except one or two.

Luke

[congo]

Winzip has a routine for recovering data from "bad CRC" files. Success will depend on how much data is actually intact.

This experience is a hard lesson on the reason to invest in  a second hard disk for backup purposes though, especially if your data is precious to you.  

[luke]

Absolutely right Congo, fully apreciated.

How does it work, for two HDs spinning 7.2k does one need extra things, and is 350W psu bearable?.

I hope for an upgrade on :-
ASUS (AGP) nForce4 s939, AMD 3200, Mem 1gb.
40 Gb SATA HD.

Can my old IDE HD (80gb) work with the above ?.

Is it advisable to have
Win98 on IDE with all usual programs &
winXP on SATA for FS9, FSNav etc only.

Like I was till recently, but one IDE with partitions.

Do I get the WinZip routine from them or elsewhere?.

thnx

[congo]

I can't remember exactly the way the winzip thing works, but I used to get errors downloading aircraft (probably due to a bad internet connection) and I could often get them flying with maybe only a missing texture on some part for example.

I do remember that when you get the error screen in winzip, you don't click the obvious, but you make another selection....... I'm sorry I can't be more specific on that, it's been a while.
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Try to avoid a dual boot system and get away from Win'98 if at all possible. Update your software to XP standard or use a comparible Win XP compatible program..... or try to run Win'98 programs in compatibility mode using WinXP.

I say this because Win'98 is supported less and less these days, but more importantly, I had some bad experiences using dual boot systems with win'98 and Win XP. This always lead to my XP system getting corrupted and I was never able to boot into it again. Restoration of my XP partition required the destruction of my Win'98 partition as well!