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Answer» <html><body><p>I am almost sure I have a corrupt registry. It is running win98. This is a old computer that I use at the office for quickbooks only, and of course my dad never backs up his system so now I am a nervous reck we are going to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/loose-1079260" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LOOSE">LOOSE</a> the entire businesses financial, please help! If nothing else can someone tell me how I get the files from dos before it completely crashes and I have nothing.<br/><br/>It starts up in dos prompt only, no safe mode or nothing. It first started with a Dynamic error, and now I believe the registry is corrupt because it stops right at system.DAT when doing the reg scan. I have tried restore/repair/fix....I think I have almost tried everything.<br/><br/>Please help<br/><br/>Thank you!<br/><br/>LisaQuote</p><blockquote>how I get the files from dos before it completely <br/>crashes and I have nothing.</blockquote><br/>By not doing anything -- Until you have a copy of hat is on the drive.<br/>Here a CH the general recommendation is to make a 'clone' backup right now.<br/>The is sometimes called a Backup Image. It requires you to have another Hard drive available to copy the original to the new drive. <br/>You may need to use another PC to download the software and burn the CD. But if you computer does not boot from the CD, you may have to remove the drive and copy it using another Desktop computer.<br/>After you have a backup, we can then fix the old system.<br/><em>DO NOT try to fix anything without a backup!</em><br/><br/><br/>That is where I am at now, scared to do anything! LOL.....so far I have copied "my <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/documents-247050" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DOCUMENTS">DOCUMENTS</a>" to a floppy then to my other computer so I can then go from floppy to flash drive. I believe doing it this was will take awhile due to the size of floppies....but I am really only concerned with quickbooks, but every name I type in dos it cant find it. I am not very familiar with the abbreviation in doc...like...the "my documents" is really "my docu~1" in dos.....that is where I am confused....so where is quickbooks file I need?<br/><br/>LisaQuote from: oregongrl on January 02, 2010, 01:16:20 PM<blockquote>...I am not very familiar with the abbreviation in doc...like...the "my documents" is really "my docu~1" in dos.....that is where I am confused....so where is quickbooks file I need?...</blockquote><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/kb/142982">How Windows Generates 8.3 File Names from Long File Names</a>how do I make a 'clone' backup ?You will need the use of another computer if yours is not stable. You remove the drive and "slave" it in the a good Desktop PC with enough free disk space to make a copy or image of your failing drive.<br/><br/>Below are some lengths to companies that offer the disc clone software that you will need. Some have<br/>free trials that you can download. Of course, you have to have a working computer to do this. Perhaps someone else in your workgroup or family has a working computer that can burn the software onto a CD.<br/><br/>Acronis True Image<br/><a href="http://www.acronis.com/">http://www.acronis.com/</a><br/><br/>Norton Ghost<br/><a href="http://shop.symantecstore.com/">http://shop.symantecstore.com/</a><br/><br/>PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)<br/><a href="http://ping.windowsdream.com/">http://ping.windowsdream.com/</a><br/><br/>Image for Windows/DOS/Linux<br/><a href="https://download.cnet.com/Image-for-Windows/3000-2242_4-10149389.html">http://download.cnet.com/Image-for-Windows/3000-2242_4-10149389.html</a><br/><br/>The above links are said to be good products. I have not personally tried them all. However I do have one favorite listed below that I've used quite often and I think it is <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/appropriate-363698" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about APPROPRIATE">APPROPRIATE</a> for your situation they will give you a free trial and the product is good enough for making an emergency copy of your hard disk drive.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.hdclone.com/">http://www.hdclone.com/</a><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Yes, I have my computer that I am on. I actually have a few working desktops. The one that is broke is very old, it runs win98, all I need off of it is quickbooks....(the most important) my dad is ready to kill me, although it is his fault for not backing up...hehe...also the only thing that works is the floppy and I can get into dos prompt. So whats your best <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/suggestion-250110" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SUGGESTION">SUGGESTION</a> for getting quickbooks off?How to slave a hard drive <br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z80PqSSLFn4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z80PqSSLFn4</a>Im sorry but I am lost....I am not sure what is the easiest way to go. I went to one of your links...the <a href="http://www.acronis.com/">http://www.acronis.com/</a><br/>and there are so many different options....sorry for being dumb....I think I'll be the first to address the actual issue rather then go off on some rant about hard drive imaging.<br/><br/>It's been some time since I've used windows 98, but if my memory serves me, the system makes a backup of "system.dat" and "user.dat"; they are usually called "user.da0" and "system.da0".<br/><br/>basically, copy your current system.dat and user.dat files. I'm not 100% on their location, but I"m quite certain that they are either in C:\WINDOWS, or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.<br/><br/>to move between <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/folders-994110" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FOLDERS">FOLDERS</a>, you can use "cd": for example, if the prompt starts you at C:\&gt;, you can use "CD WINDOWS" to change to the windows directory, and "CD SYSTEM" if you need to get into the system folder. cd .. (cd and two dots) will take you up one folder/directory. if you want to search the entire disk for the da files, you can try going into the Root of C: (use cd \) and using the command:<br/><br/>Code: <a>[Select]</a>dir /s *.da? | more <br/>once you've found the file , you can copy it over using the following. Note that where I type the da0 file names, you will need to type the full name and path of the da0 file, unless it is in the same directory.<br/><br/>Code: <a>[Select]</a><br/><br/>C:\WINDOWS&gt;copy system.dat system.old<br/><br/>1 file(s) copied.<br/><br/>C:\WINDOWS&gt;copy user.dat user.old<br/><br/>1 file(s) copied.<br/><br/>C:\WINDOWS&gt;copy system.da0 system.dat<br/><br/>&lt;say yes to overwrite prompt&gt;<br/><br/>C:\WINDOWS&gt;copy user.da0 user.dat<br/><br/><br/>if your able to copy the files, you should be able to reboot successfully. I can't remember exactly what type of a backup the da0 file was; I believe it was created after every successful boot.</body></html>


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