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#1
If I hook it up in my xp cd, I get files off the drive when attempting recovery.

ontrack drops the files into folders by type, nice but not what I need.

In Nt4.0 with pinball, they don't show at all. One did, and I got the files off it.
Recovery returned the same files for each drive:
*.bdr 1gb
*.pcx 40mb
and a few others. The same drive returned files in raw mode in xp recovery.

I have to install ecomstation and try recovery from there, as many know it's
not so easy to install due to hardware. I might buy a microdrive to ide adapter.
$7.00 off ebay.

I'd like to try what I can in the os before I lay out $65 for DFsee.

The scsi card I use is very old, so it should find it. Even NT 3.51 found it, so it
should not be a problem.

Once again, thanks for all the help, I hope to have good news.

As to the content, this is the company they came from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculptured_Software
#2
Many thanks Ivan. The problem is the partitions were dropped on the drives.

I'm going to look at dfsee in the meantime.

How does one go about data recovery in os/2?

Is dfsee the go-to app?
#3
Thank you for so many replies.

The drives are just over 1Gb. Quantum Fireball 1080 SCSI drives.
Hooked to the scsi card, I got an immediate error about the >1 GB
setting in the card. I stopped encountering problems when I set the
SCSI card to pre 1gb compatibility.

I'm quite good with software, the problem is the hardware on hand seems to be beyond what os/2 was meant for. I looked to ecomstation, but it would not install. I later had the same problem with linux, and it was the 8gb limit of the mainboard. I set the HDD jumper to compat and it worked in linux. I didn't try
ecomstation yet.

P3 450mhz, 768mb ram, 80gb maxtor, 6gb hitachi, cd-rom, floppy, pcmcia controller, scsi card.

I tried to install ecomstation to a 6gb drive, no luck. The Cd never made it past the bootup,
the error was always the one relating to the 2gb limit. I tried partitioning it for 2gb and still no go,
hence the NT 4.0 solution.

If I try to recover in windows, I get files but they are useless as easyrecovery strips the file of location
making them useless. A huge folder of mashed up files is useless to me.

I will put another 6gb in and try to install ecomstation.

The data on the drives is unreleased or beta games for Sega Saturn, if I don't recover the files
this data will be lost... So far it's survived since 1996 in a cardboard box. No bad drives either.
they sure don't make them like they used to!
#4
Storage / Data recovery, help appreciated.
2009.07.16, 08:21:47
I'd like to say greetings, new to the forum. I hope
my new status won't put you off, as I have a
big problem..

I'm trying to recover os/2 hpfs data off some 1gb drives.
I'm using nt 4.0 (pinball reg patched) with ontrack recovery.

One drive showed up in nt4.0 thanks to the pinball patch.

The other drives don't show up, and in disk admin it tells me it
sees them but no partition.

1. Is there any way in os/2 or NT to recover a dropped hpfs partition?
2. Is there a windows program that can do this?
3. If not, can I do it from ecomstation RC?

Forgive my lack of knowledge, I've been doing research for some hours
and it doesn't help that most people have never heard of hpfs let alone
done recoveries from a dropped partition.

Many thanks for your kind insight.