Disciple

I had some trouble in xp awhile back ,and the only way i knew of fixing it was doing a formatt/reinstall. Before proceeding with this course of action I booted dos 6.22 (does not have support for long file names),
and used the xcopy /e/k command to copy my "documents and settings" folder onto a seperate partion.
Thinking all was fine i went ahead and reinstalled, upon accessing my new install for the first time I went straight to the above mentioned copied files only to find i could access none of them even the ones in which the file name was 4 characters long. All the filename extensions appear valid
Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Disciple

sorry I left out that i used "ntfs pro" in order to be able to access my ntfs volume both partitions are ntfs

Joose

What heppens when you try and access them?

Is your NTFS partition encrypted?

stereomod

yah might want to thinkabout chucking in another hdd and formatting it for FAT32

Disciple

Quote: Originally Posted by pimp joose What heppens when you try and access them? Is your NTFS partition encrypted?

I can traverse the file system fine eg folders subfolders however when i open say for instance a microsoft access database it gives the error message " Unrecognised database formatt [filename]"
when i try to open a photoshop document it says " Could not open [filename] because it is not a valid photoshop document"

some text documents open fine others are in an unknown language eg(>êÆn?wwBZy¹s “¹ìž»>?1n?¼»BçÛrÂ� �¹)

image files such as .bmp .jpg .gif all opened in windows picture and fax viewer show as "No preview available"

(files were transfered from ntfs to ntfs so although i booted dos 6.22 because i used ntfs pro to mount my ntfs partitions files were never fat 32 though on the off chance i did try copying to a fat32 partion and still have the same problem)

also partition is not encrypted

Joose

Like I mentioned before, XP's NTFS is slightly different than 2000's NTFS, which is, in turn, slightly different than NT's NTFS. It's my opinion that the DOS driver you used to access your XP NTFS partitions was built for an earlier verion of NTFS, so during the copy the files were corrupted.

All the more reason NOT to use an NTFS driver; more often than not they cause problems. Next time try using the recovery console on your XP CD.