Uhm, is there an "AWE" list...?
It sounds like you ran a DOS disk utility rather than it's Win9x counterpart and it choked on the long filename entries; you are probably hosed. The C:\DIRnnnn are "recovered" "lost" directories...
(Try running DOS "RECOVER" sometime and watch it totally trash your drive...)
Put that 13GB in a Linux Samba server and automate the net connect??
At 05:19 PM 3/23/2000 , David S. Jackson intimated that...
>Well, now that even my daughter's edutainment programs need 100MB
>of diskspace, I went to add another HD, this time a 13GB, which
>makes four IDE devices on her machine. But Windows couldn't find
>HIMEM.SYS and IFSHELP.SYS. This was before formatting the new
>drive, so it's not a drive name problem. When I ran scandisk, it
>created 23 directories labelled C:\DIR0001 to C:\DIR00024 or
>somesuch. Then it couldn't lost DBLBUFF.SYS also. Sheesh. (So,
>do I really want to give this filesystem 13GB to foul up? I don't
>think so....)
>
>In the interest of wiping my 4-yr-old daughter's tears, is there
>any way short of reinstalling Windows from scratch to salvage
>those files? Any magic bullet short of a backed-up registry (no
>I don't have one, but will in the future, by golly) that might
>help?
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