[onlit4regs]

hi Jaclaz,

so, I'm extracted all the extents from the faulty hard drive (with errors of course).
I'm trying to inject them in a new file using:
fsz c:\newfile.pds 548864

then:
dsfi c:\newfile.pds 0 0 extent1.dd
then:
dsi c:\newfile.pds 8192 0 extent2.dd
and I receive the error:
c:\newfile.pds: no data available

any idea what's wrong ?
thanks again !

[jaclaz]

There is seemingly nothing wrong (there is a typo with dsi instead of dsfi, but this is most probably just in the post).

You shouldn't however work on root.
Make a directory, say C:\recwork
Copy to it fsz, dsfo, dsfi and the files extendn.dd.

Open a command prompt and run in it again those commands , then run:

DIR C:\recwork\*.dd>C:\recwork\dir.txt
DIR C:\recwork\*.pds>>C:\recwork\dir.txt

post the dir.txt contents, maybe there is an issue with size of files?

jaclaz

[onlit4regs]

sorry, after making the command you asked me, I've seen that extent2 and 3 were at "0" size !

unfortunatly, I've merged all the extents and I have as a result, a beautiful file, full of "0xFF" values only !!
I've also opened all the extracted extents, it's the same, 0xFF everywhere ....
so, I guess I can leave this file alone , and I will try on another one

thanks again