BleepingComputer.com: can I extract single files from a backup?

kmbergem: As soon as I get home I will give you the directions.
~sjt0hrd

someone should register "www.fastconv.org" that has every solution from this and every other site, plus the program. then we can maybe get someone to write a GUI for everyone's favorite recovery tool

If you want to volunteer, I will host it

i know there are directions listed but im quite confused, but am very patient as i have been able to move on when i could not find any support for fastconv earlier during the summer. Good things happen to those who wait so i found this site off of google *cheers* and downloaded the fastconv thing

My operating system (win xp home sp2 build 2600) is installed on D:

I have my archive located at C:\USMT2.UNC and i have a temp folder located at C:\temp

When I run the FAST wizard and it crashes i don't know where to find the transdb file

next i typed in this on the cmd line "fastconv /v /i:c:\USMT2.UNC /s:c:\USMT2.UNC /d:c:\temp /t:c:\temp /k" (without the quotes that is)

Fastconv runs verifying and skipping decompression for "C:\temp\0000####.dat"

this goes on for a long time, the original archive was 4 gb or so. fastconv goes through most of the files creating a fat list then it gets stuck on "Veryifying: C:\temp\00002732.DAT Size: 47217430
Skipping decompression for: C:\temp\00002732.dat

I left it alone for a couple hours and no progress I can only assume that it froze.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks


Next time ill leave my backing up to me doing it the old fashioned way. Trusting microsoft with my files....who am i kidding seriously thinking that a files and settings transfer wizard would work...

This is what sjt0hrd wrote to me, and it worked fine:

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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.

I tried using the cmd line you gave me but Im still having troubles with it.

the line was fastconv /S:C:\USMT2.UNC /D:C:\NEW /k

when i ran this, fastconv extracts the files but then part of the way through the program closes getting some kind of error "AppName: fastconv.exe AppVer: 5.1.3566.0 ModName: ntdll.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00011e58"

when i look at the folder C:\new its empty but in the \localsettings\temp i have 4 folders, 00000, 00001, 00002, 00003. Each of these folders is filled with various *.dat files

*dances* I go my files back, i just needed to skip a couple of *.dat files that fastconv keep freezing on. So all is well thanks kmbergem *dances*

Ok, I'm having a problem myself with this program.

I have a bunch of .dat files, labeled as so: data0.dat, data1.dat, etc.

The files are stored in c:\extract
FasConv is stored in c:\extract

My save file where I want the extracted files to go to is: c:\save

I am trying to extract them using the following command line:
fastconv /S:C:\extract /D:C:\save /k

But I'm getting the error: "Source Store is Invalid."

Can anybody help me out here?

TIA

hmm...

did you read through all the posts in this thread? maybe one of our situations will help you?

Yeah, I did, but no joy. Anybody?

are there any other files inside the folder where your .dat stores are? if so, remove them. also, try different combinations of spacing in your DOS line...sometimes DOS can be a bleep and not like spacing...and sometimes a different combination will get it to work

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: 05 January 2005 - 01:39 PM

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.

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!

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