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 Jun 1 2006, 03:32 PM
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QUOTE(kmbergem @ Oct 30 2004, 01:59 AM)  This is what sjt0hrd wrote to me, and it worked fine: QUOTE Ok, this is what I did. First, make a new folder under the root of the c: drive called new. I am just telling you this because that is what I did, and that is what the picture shows. Then, open a command prompt in windows, and type the following: fastconv /S:C\USMT2.UNC /D:C\NEW /k Just go into your temp directory while it is running and you will see the data temporarily being put there. It's located here: c:\documents and settings\your name here\local settings\temp But that's not important. So when it is finished, go to c:\new and everything should be restored and it should be located under _c, I believe. Now, it won't put everything back automatically, but it should recover your data. I got all my data back, not in the right places, but I just moved them back and mostly everything worked. But what I don't understand is if Microsoft knows this is a problem and that their ONLY backup solution is NOT working, why in Gods name didn't they fix it with the SP2???!!!! They know what the problem is, since they have made a program to fix it, but why not fix the problem itself!!! Stupid Microsofters. Okay, so does anyone know whether you can use the tool to extract JUST a specific file? I used the /i:f:\USMT2.UNC\*.pst switch but I don't think that's going to work because I get the impression that it's not going to unpack the files, look at the original file name and check it against the string. Particularly since it's unpacking to a new folder NOT called USMT2.UNC. I am going to guess therefore, that the /i: switch is used to designate which .DAT file to use, not which original files to extract? Can anyone verify this as it is currently running using the command above and hasn't errored out. The reason I've started down this road is that I need to get my .pst file back out of the FAST store. Do I have to use fastconv.exe to pull ALL of the files (32G  ) out of the store and then just go find the original .pst out of the restored directory?Anyhow, everyone's help on this (admittedly old but still useful) thread is much appreciated. |
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Aug 4 2006, 09:35 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 23-August 05 Member No.: 32,077 |
yes you can but how to change the file to want it is ment to be after that I have no clue Im lost after the extracting as they come up as a bunch of other files
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Oct 24 2006, 03:40 PM
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QUOTE(whiterabbit62 @ Mar 20 2006, 09:54 PM) I used FAST to back up my settings and some files before reformatting my hard drive and re-installing my software. I used a cdrw drive with software (In-Cd by Ahead software) that makes it work like a big floppy drive. It took two CDs to do the backup and I ended up with one file on each CD named USMT2IMG.dat. Not knowing any better I assumed this was correct and proceeded to format my drive and re-install windows. When I tried restore my files and settings I got the error "insert disk 1" even after making shure the correct disk was in the drive and dirrecting FAST to the correct location. Can anybody tell me how to get my data back? Whiterabbit, Try this link to convert files which have been backed up to removeable media: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/fast.htm and scroll to the bottom to find the "Rmv2opq" tool. |
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Oct 24 2006, 03:45 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 24-October 06 Member No.: 91,865 |
I had the same problem having run the File and Settings Transfer Wizard on a heavily infected PC, which I then formatted and attempted to restore the data. Following the advice found all over the internet I obtained every different version of "migwiz.exe" (5 different ones) and even downloaded and tried the "fastconv" utility. Absolutely nothing would work.
My further research led me to the Microsoft User State Migration tool, which is a command line version of the same application and is intended for network administrators involved in migrating users from older versions of Windows to XP (the latest version also supports Windows 2003). Success at last!!! For the benefit of the many other people I found posting cries for help on forums all over the internet I have outlined the steps below; I have assumed a limited knowledge of command line utilities because I discovered that many people asked for assistance in this also ;) 1. First go to the Microsft User State Migration website and download the utility from the link on the page below (I used version 2.60 but I assume that later versions will also work as well): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/desktopde...rstateusmt.mspx 2. Install the program using the defaults. 3. Open a Command prompt: "Start -> Run -> cmd.exe" 4. Navigate to the loadstate directory: "cd\usmt\bin" 5. Run "loadstate" with the store path as the parent directory of your "USMT2.UNC" directory. (For example, if your data is in C:\USMT2.UNC then the store path will be C:\) If the EXACT same user profile does not exist on the new PC then include the "/lac" switch (local account create) and "/lae" (local account enable). As an example, if you backed up the data belonging to "Fred B" from the old machine but have not created a user with that name on the new machine, and you have copied the USMT2.UMC directory to the root of the C drive your command will be: loadstate c:\ /lac /lae There are plenty of other command line options, but these are aimed at network administrators, and they can be explored by reading the included help files or by running "loadstate /?" at the command line. The utility also allows you to select specific files to extract but this relies on you creating various .inf files for it to reference. (I also used the /test option because it offered to run more quickly but make sure you have another copy of the USMT2.UNC directory somewhere because a power failure during the process will render the data inaccessible!). Now it's a case of waiting for the utility to complete. If it fails check the "loadstate.log" file and check your file path and options. (Remember to point the store path at the parent directory as the application will look in that directory for the USMT2.UNC directory.) Once it has completed you should now have a new user created on your PC with the same name as the user on the old PC and all the files and settings that you selected when you ran the File and Settings Transfer Wizard will have been restored under that user login. Hope this helps. Good luck! Steve, ezipc.co.uk |
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Oct 25 2006, 02:33 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 25-October 06 Member No.: 92,035 |
I've tried absolutely everything with fastconv.exe, and no matter what I always got a error with a corrupt transdb.
But I think I've bl**dy cracked it (for me at least)!  I updated to the latest version of Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (FAST) by using [color=#3366FF]!KB896344![color=#000000]This is technically to provide support for migrating 32bit to 64bit systems. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896344 !Whether it's critical or not, i did a reboot before anything else! I then ran FAST on the new machine, to create a backup for the new machine. I then went to the new USMT2.UNC folder, and copied my original IMG*****.DAT files into it, but not the status file! This I left as the new one which had been written during the latest backup. I then tried the restore using the new version of the wizard, pointing at the folder holding this new USMT2.UNC, and success. I don't provide any guarantees, but it got there for me. Regards and All The Luck In The World. |
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Oct 26 2006, 09:40 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 26-October 06 Member No.: 92,123 |
I just want to say thanks to the forum, after surfing the web and finding various sites in regards to FASTCONV and not understanding a word I was reading, I came across this site spent a bit of time reading the posts and I'm please to say the post below worked for me and my data is now restored.
So thanks to all for sharing their knowledge  QUOTE(kmbergem @ Oct 30 2004, 01:59 AM) This is what sjt0hrd wrote to me, and it worked fine: QUOTE Ok, this is what I did. First, make a new folder under the root of the c: drive called new. I am just telling you this because that is what I did, and that is what the picture shows. Then, open a command prompt in windows, and type the following: fastconv /S:C\USMT2.UNC /D:C\NEW /k Just go into your temp directory while it is running and you will see the data temporarily being put there. It's located here: c:\documents and settings\your name here\local settings\temp But that's not important. So when it is finished, go to c:\new and everything should be restored and it should be located under _c, I believe. Now, it won't put everything back automatically, but it should recover your data. |
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Nov 13 2006, 05:54 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 13-November 06 Member No.: 95,473 |
OMG Rob K!!!!
Thank you so much for posting that tip!! It worked and saved 3 yrs of my life! ...and for the love of g*d people, make at least 1 other b/u with some other tool |
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Nov 13 2006, 10:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 26-July 04 Member No.: 1,686 |
TO ANYONE WHO EVER COMES ACROSS THIS THREAD IN THE FUTURE:
For the love of all things sacred DO NOT USE THE FILES AND SETTINGS TRANSFER WIZARD!!! Use Norton Ghost, use Acronis, hell back up everything manually on an external drive but NEVER under ANY circumstances use this horrid piece of software! Tell everyone you know this information. Pass on what you have learned. Spread the word that the files and settings transfer wizard will f-ck you big time. I can't help every case that comes up just because I have 8,649 different things to deal with. But the people in this thread have all been through unique experiences and I'm sure all their accounts here will help even the most stubborn corrupted IMG file. To anyone who reads this, get up off your ass and go buy an external hard drive. Then go out and get a disk imaging program and make backup images of your system every few days. Just do it. There's no excuse for f-cking up your precious data with Microsoft's crap tool. Best of luck out there. This post has been edited by MC427: Nov 13 2006, 10:13 PM |
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 Nov 21 2006, 11:37 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 21-November 06 Member No.: 97,003 |
Hello,
My friend had this problem and I decided to help him. For those of you interested in extracting a .dat file using the fastconv utility, (from files created by the Microsoft Files and Settings Transfer Utility) let's take you through it step by step. Most of us are terrible at DOS and the instructions for typing the dos commands for the fastconv.exe were horribly confusing. I have successfully extracted files, here's how you do it. This guide is only for extracting a complete .dat file (most likely your .dat file is named (IMG00001.DAT). It should be in a folder called (USMT2.UNC) Follow these instructions exactly and you will be successful. Forget about everything you think you know and temp folders and all of that crap. Make it easy on yourself. 1: Create a new folder on the c: drive called “old” It should appear as c:\old (This is where we will extract from once we copy your USMT2.UNC folder to it.) 2: Copy the USMT2.UNC folder into this “old” folder, making sure that what you should see in the “old” folder is the “USMT2.UNC” folder. Is should appear as this: c:\old\USMT2.UNC 3: Create a new folder on the c: drive called: “new” It should appear as c:\new (This is where your extracted files will end up when we're finished.) 4: Create a folder on the c: drive called: “fast” It should appear as c:\fast (Why? You'll see. We need to run this fastconv program from this folder. It will be simpler and easier.) 5: Download the fastconv program and unzip (or copy it) it to c:\fast It has to be run from this folder in the command prompt. Go to step 6. 6: Go to the command prompt. (Start....Programs......Accessories......Command Prompt By default it will end up at c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator(or user name)> Now we need to go to the folder which fastconv is in and run it. This is the c:\fast folder. 7: Change the directory to c:\fast How? Do this by typing cd c:\fast 8: Hit the "Enter" key 9: Now it should say c:\fast> Now we are in the directory where fastconv is located and we can run it. 10: Now type this exactly as you see it--NO CHANGES!!!: fastconv /s:C:\old\usmt2.unc /d:C:\new 11: Your files should extract. They can be found here in the “New” folder which is seen as c:\new Any questions? Most of you are finding it difficult because the instructions out there include switches for temp directories and all of that crap. Using this method, you don't need to worry about which specific file to name------the only thing that matters is that you have a folder named USMT2.UNC and that you followed instructions. Let's break the command down, for those of you who wish to alter it a little bit to suit your own needs. fastconv (the command, with a space after it) /s: (the swith saying where the folder is, no spaces) C:\old\umst2.unc (the location where the usmt2.unc folder is located) A space must come before we start with the /d:C:\new We're halfway done! Let's tell it where to go now. /d: (the switch saying where I'm going to extract my files to) C:\new (the location where I want to extract to) Once again the command is typed exactly like this: fastconv /s:C:\old\usmt2.unc /d:C:\new There that should be easy! We simplified it by changing the language to terms we can understand. We copied the usmt2.unc folder to c:\old We copied or unzipped the fastconv utility to c:\fast We extracted it using the command line to c:\new Any questions? There have been countless times in which I have learned things from other taking the time to help out. I hope this helps some of you out. Keith This post has been edited by live2bfree76: Nov 21 2006, 11:39 PM |
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Jan 4 2007, 11:38 PM
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I've been trying to use the suggestions in this thread to recover some FAST files.. but I'm hitting a problem with rmv2opq ...
QUOTE The header of the source file is corrupt. The source file C:\old\usmt2.unc\IMG00001.DAT is not the right one or the header is corrupt. Any ideas? It's the same for all .dat files... |
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Jan 12 2007, 03:19 PM
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QUOTE(EyeBaller @ Jan 4 2007, 11:38 PM) I've been trying to use the suggestions in this thread to recover some FAST files.. but I'm hitting a problem with rmv2opq ... QUOTE The header of the source file is corrupt. The source file C:\old\usmt2.unc\IMG00001.DAT is not the right one or the header is corrupt. Any ideas? It's the same for all .dat files... I have used FAST to transfer files to an external HD because I was reformatting my COMP. OK so what I got was a bunch of 2GB files in usmt2.unc on my external drive e:\ IMG00001.DAT IMG00002.DAT IMG00003.DAT etc... all the way through about 16 of them all together 26 GB I used rmv2opq on them. It seems to have put everything in one giant archive IMG00001.DAT (BTW I was getting this error each time the program reach a new IMGxxxx.DAT file "The header of the source file is corrupt. The source file C:\old\usmt2.unc\IMGxxxxxx.DAT is not the right one or the header is corrupt." but I ignored it since the program continued despite the error.) Now I am working with that one large 26GB archive with fastcov.exe I tried to extract the archive using fastconv /s:c:\new1 /d:c:\new2 worked ok for a while. Then I got the "can not read images error" on some dat file. OK so i run it with the exclude switch (/e) /s:c:\new1 /e:xxxxx.dat /d:c:\new2 I continue in this manner for a while, each time it runs into an error I add the specific file to the exclude switch. works ok for a few files. BUT now there is one file. 0000356B.dat which fastconv just cant seem to digest. I get the message "skipping decompression for c:\myuser\local settings\temp\0000356B.dat" and the program just sits there. The cursor is blinking but it just gets hung up and wont move past this one file. it excluded the OTHER exclusions fine but when it hits this one it just gets hung up. ANy ideas? I read this entire thread a few times to get me to this point/. I dont see anything on this erro I am getting... This post has been edited by jrd1mra: Jan 12 2007, 03:20 PM |
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Jan 14 2007, 01:43 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 14-January 07 Member No.: 106,238 |
I've read every thread about the FAST debakel and frankly i'm about to crush this PC.
I keep getting the Source Store is Invalid error regardless of line item and switch entered. History.... backed up a friends lod work laptop to a removable HDD then transferred the .UNC file to her Hdd and the 1st Windows error is: the location you entered does not contain... blah blah blah It does contain the info only in 0001 - 00003.dat files all of which are about 2 gb. My only concern is she was running SP1 on the old Pc instead of SP2 like the new pc. I've tried every variant of rmvopq2 utility as well. Any thoughts? Much appreciato D |
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Jan 18 2007, 03:04 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 18-January 07 Member No.: 106,952 |
QUOTE(jrd1mra @ Jan 12 2007, 03:19 PM) QUOTE(EyeBaller @ Jan 4 2007, 11:38 PM) I've been trying to use the suggestions in this thread to recover some FAST files.. but I'm hitting a problem with rmv2opq ... QUOTE The header of the source file is corrupt. The source file C:\old\usmt2.unc\IMG00001.DAT is not the right one or the header is corrupt. Any ideas? It's the same for all .dat files... I have used FAST to transfer files to an external HD because I was reformatting my COMP. OK so what I got was a bunch of 2GB files in usmt2.unc on my external drive e:\ IMG00001.DAT IMG00002.DAT IMG00003.DAT etc... all the way through about 16 of them all together 26 GB I used rmv2opq on them. It seems to have put everything in one giant archive IMG00001.DAT (BTW I was getting this error each time the program reach a new IMGxxxx.DAT file "The header of the source file is corrupt. The source file C:\old\usmt2.unc\IMGxxxxxx.DAT is not the right one or the header is corrupt." but I ignored it since the program continued despite the error.) Now I am working with that one large 26GB archive with fastcov.exe I tried to extract the archive using fastconv /s:c:\new1 /d:c:\new2 worked ok for a while. Then I got the "can not read images error" on some dat file. OK so i run it with the exclude switch (/e) /s:c:\new1 /e:xxxxx.dat /d:c:\new2 I continue in this manner for a while, each time it runs into an error I add the specific file to the exclude switch. works ok for a few files. BUT now there is one file. 0000356B.dat which fastconv just cant seem to digest. I get the message "skipping decompression for c:\myuser\local settings\temp\0000356B.dat" and the program just sits there. The cursor is blinking but it just gets hung up and wont move past this one file. it excluded the OTHER exclusions fine but when it hits this one it just gets hung up. ANy ideas? I read this entire thread a few times to get me to this point/. I dont see anything on this erro I am getting... I'm having the exact same problem,to a T. The file 0000018FC.DAT is huge. I can't extract it or verify it. If anyone has a work around or any idea at all it would be great |
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Jan 22 2007, 01:52 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 22-January 07 Member No.: 107,648 |
I'm a computer tech, have been using FAST wizard for quite a while without mishap... until now. Helpful forum. My TRANS/DB.DAT file is apparently corrupt. There is a particular file that fastconv gets stuck on, eventually just erroring out without being able to skip that bad file for some reason. My syntax is correct, rmv2opq and fastconv work correctly with test FAST files, and will correctly skip another corrupt dat file. So I was left with converting and extracting the 2Gb files one at a time. I had hoped that by completely bypassing the corrupt files I would at the end be able to run the wizard with the extracted files - but alas the wizard says no go.
I opened the TRANS/DB.DAT in a hex editor (XVI32 is the name) and started searching for the important files. The naming structure is spaced with NULL (00 in hex) which means if you search for ".PST" (case sensitive) you will find nothing. You have to input your search ".PST", convert it to hex "2E 50 53 54", then insert NULL (00) between each character - so you end up with "2E 00 50 00 53 00 54" as the search string. Once you find the file name take a look around and not very far away will be a .DAT file name. For example, "8-4-06 (1).jpg" was the name of the file I wanted and "0000547A.DAT" was the name right below it. I navigated to the temp folder I indicated in the fastconv command and went into the "00005" folder and looked for the "47A.DAT" file. I renamed the extension to "jpg" and opened it to make sure I had the right file. Once I knew the file was the right one and opened correctly I renamed and moved it to another folder. So far it would appear the files are kept in order by folder/name, so continuing on with file "47B" was in fact the next file I was looking for. Searching through certain file ranges where I knew the beginning was I was able to retrieve 1500+ mp3's in a few minutes. Using a small program called MP3 Tag & Rename I was able to rename all the files that had ID3 tags very quickly. Shame all the documents and pictures don't have the same kind of tags! I know this sounds difficult, but when it comes to losing someone else's data or spending time deciphering the database index and recovering the files manually... well, he paid me to help him, not to lose all his data. As I said at the beginning of this post, I am a computer tech, it's what I do for a living. This forum has been around quite a while and most people that have posted here are long since done with looking at it. But if someone comes across this thread in need of assistance like I did, and wants hands-on help, let me know. This has been a very time consuming and difficult task that I would wish upon no one. Ted tecsupport.biz |
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Jan 22 2007, 02:05 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 22-January 07 Member No.: 107,648 |
QUOTE(EyeBaller @ Jan 4 2007, 08:38 PM) I've been trying to use the suggestions in this thread to recover some FAST files.. but I'm hitting a problem with rmv2opq ... QUOTE The header of the source file is corrupt. The source file C:\old\usmt2.unc\IMG00001.DAT is not the right one or the header is corrupt. Any ideas? It's the same for all .dat files... I also had the same messages, but I was still able to run fastconv on the new usmt2.unc folder. I eventually had to rmv2opq first then fastconv second one file at a time, but I got the important (and not so important) files back. I'll still use FAST, it's been too good of a tool not to, but I'll never use it for the documents again. Manually move all the docs to a new location then run the wiz. Don't forget the fav's and pst's! Ted |
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