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 Dec 2 2004, 12:11 AM
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Jan 5 2005, 01:34 PM
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Need some MAJOR help here...
Trying all that has been shown in above posts, but I'm getting source store is invalid everytime. Any ideas at all? Please IM me at CatsFan03 (AIM, MSN, Yahoo). Thanks SOOOO Much! Ryan Removed mail address so you wont receive spam - Grinler This post has been edited by Grinler: Jan 5 2005, 01:39 PM |
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Jan 5 2005, 08:18 PM
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hmm......well if you say you've tried everything in the above posts then there's really nothing I can think of. I'm sorry to be so negative but the FASTconv procedures are not an exact science, given the nature of file corruption in general. The one thing I can think of off hand is when you set the source store in the C prompt, direct FASTconv to the folder only where your original stores are located, not the stores themselves. Other than that...re-read all of the posts here carefully and make sure you try everything at least twice. Sometimes things like basic spelling errors or spacing errors in the C prompt can throw things off.
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Feb 19 2005, 10:48 AM
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I've been using Fastconv to get back some old stuff that I used files and settings transfer wizard in xp back. I can get it to extract a lot of .dat files to a temporary folder in my documents but when it extracts a file called 0000F13F.dat it then says:
"Cannot read all images from source store. Error=13" It then quits and I'm left with all these extracted .dat files in my temp directory and none of the files I want back in my destination directory. I read somewhere on this forum that a user was able to tell fastconv to skip certain .dat files, but I can't get it to do it using the /e extension. Does anyone know how to do that or somehow get fastconv to change those .dat files to files I can get back? I also tried to get the "transdb" file from F.A.S.T. but every time I run the wizard it automatically deletes all the files it extracted before it brings up the error and I can't get it to quit that. Thank you for all the help in this forum so far. I've been trying to get these files back for over 6 months. I just need this last piece and I can finally have my stuff back! |
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Mar 9 2005, 07:54 AM
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Hello, new to the forum, greetings to everyone etc.
 I have this probelm with the FAST thing. But ive trawled the net extensively and it seems i have done the biggest one anyone has had problems with. I tried backing up about 120-130gb with FAST its compressed it all to 122gb to my new 160gb drive. I reinstalled windows (pro sp2) then tried to run the wizard and it completes but then says 'The following files could not be returned to their original location. Please return them manually' then it lists pretty much every file i really dont want to lose, about six years of my docs and pics, all my tv(about90gb) and countless other things. The weird thing is it seems to try and unpack all these files on the same disc as the USMT folder with the backups, obviously there isnt enough space on this drive as the backup folder is 122 itself it gets some of the folders out fine, some of my pics and tv etc, but only about 10% of it. So it looks like it would be able to unpack my stuff it just it doesnt have the space. So me and my mate, who is a lot better at dos, had a fiddle with FASTconv. he manged to get it to start to unpack, but again we dont have enough space to do it all, with the temp and the source and dest folders. my old drives is 160gb too, for the record. So again it pretty much just comes back to finding the command line for FASTconv to unpack a single 2gb chunk at a time. Or because we did make it error once at one of the chunks, if we could just make it skip that one, or do ten chunks at a time or something. I read on another forum that this wizard worked fine under sp1 so i was considering trying to restore to an install of just plain xp or sp1, any thoughts. the same forum said that sp2 doesnt seem to work for files. it might be worth telling somewhere that does tutorials about this, to be very careful about using it, not to use files with it and not to back up about 120gb of data! I am in the same position as the above fella, i really dont want to give up because i know all my stuff is there. Microsoft have obviously been useless about all this. This could be the final straw for me re:microsuck |
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Aug 30 2005, 03:27 PM
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samt1man and me have the same thing going on.If someone can help that would be great
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Sep 1 2005, 08:07 AM
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Thunderclap:
 Please tell me what you have going on in more detail and I may be able to help you. Oh, and just for the record, if you try to use the Files and Transfer wizard and you have huge files that are being added, this is what seems to cause the problem. In the future if you ever use this god-awful program again, make sure to move those files over manually. Just a heads up 
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Sep 1 2005, 03:44 PM
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Thanks for the welcome
 I have extracted dat files from the store till where I have a error but I have no clue how to get in to the dat files Hope this explains enough for you And I have already stoped using F.A.S.T except for IE and Outlook.I think this is bull MS should have a disclaimer on F.A.S.T. before someone loses something worth a few mils and sue there a--!!! This post has been edited by Thunderclap: Sep 1 2005, 03:46 PM |
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Sep 13 2005, 07:24 AM
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sjt0hrd you must be away because you have not got back to us.If someone else knows please help
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Sep 13 2005, 08:00 AM
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Hi Thunderclap
You will find that you get a much better response if you post a new topic describing your particular problem in a new thread in the appropriate forum. -------------------- **** We use our powers for good, not evil **** When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. Abraham Maslo |
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Oct 19 2005, 11:52 PM
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QUOTE(CatsFan03 @ Jan 5 2005, 02:34 PM)  Need some MAJOR help here... Trying all that has been shown in above posts, but I'm getting source store is invalid everytime. Any ideas at all? Please IM me at CatsFan03 (AIM, MSN, Yahoo). Thanks SOOOO Much! Ryan Removed mail address so you wont receive spam - Grinler I'm getting the same error. I've modified the command line in every way possible. When I don't have the /s: pointed to the source directory, I get a list of command switches. So I know it sees the store. But I think the problem is that the TRANS.DB or whatever is missing. Is there a way to rebuild the trans.db? I've tried rerunning FAST Wizard to restore but it gives the same error but doesn't leave a DB file. |
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Oct 24 2005, 10:28 PM
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Well, Ive tried the method posted earlier with the TRANSDB.DAT, and when the program came to TRANSDB.DAT (I assume its the alst file it wanted) it failed, and left me with all of the individual .DAT files in 10 directories: "00000 - 00009" and a "TRANS" Directory containing DB.DAT. I did this twice, but it fails at the end when it hits
Extracting: C:\tempe\TRANSDB.DAT Size: <whatever the file size was>" I tried it once more but adding "/e:transdb.dat" to the command oh, and the command im using is: fastconv /s:c:\usmt2.unc /d:c:\e /t:c:\tempe /e:transdb.dat Ive come to realize that the hexadecimal named .DAT files within the "00000 - 00009" directories are the actual files themselves, but havnt been given their original file names yet. I have all of those files, but it doesnt do me any good to have 32.5 GB worth of .DAT files and not know what any of them were named. Might there be a way to bypass the extraction process from the original large 2gb .DAT files and just do the filename conversions? I really need to have these files, 1 years worth of sourcecode for a project that was due to release last weekend (haulted due to the inability to get my files back, thanks a lot Microsoft) and 2 years worth of graphic projects and website templates that I designed (my entire career's portfolio) Big help would be appreciated, thank you very much in advanced for anything that you can do to help me. This post has been edited by T3rM1ght: Oct 25 2005, 02:46 AM |
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Oct 25 2005, 02:48 AM
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someone please, I really need these files, my beta testers are getting anxious but I cant do anything without the source codes. |
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Oct 30 2005, 07:42 PM
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well for one thing that is stuff you need to back up all the time to CDs or DVD`s.I would be able to help but I got no way of getting them changed form DAT files after I did the extracton.this would be a good stick post as it helped me and others alot and this is the most knowlage on this subject on the net to date(also my reason for not using a new post).
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Nov 16 2005, 03:51 AM
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QUOTE(Thunderclap @ Oct 30 2005, 04:42 PM) well for one thing that is stuff you need to back up all the time to CDs or DVD`s.I would be able to help but I got no way of getting them changed form DAT files after I did the extracton.this would be a good stick post as it helped me and others alot and this is the most knowlage on this subject on the net to date(also my reason for not using a new post). Umm for those getting the "source file is invlaid" thing don't forget to use the Rmv2opq Tool first then use fastconv on it's output |
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