File and Settings Transfer (Unable to complete)

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I installed a fresh copy of XP Prof on my computer. Before I did this, I did
the Files and Settings Wizard, got the old data on two .DAT files IMG00001
and IMG00002, one is over 2GB and the other is about 1.7 GB.

When I tried to retrieve the files on my new installation, I get the message
" The location that you specified does not contain stored information.
Please type a valid folder path into the edit box...... If you entered a
path to a folder on a removable disk, the disk must be in the drive.

I have XP Prof with SP2.

I had the files on a USB harddrive formatted to FAT 32, I tried copying the
files onto the computer hard disks, that did not help.

Please HELP I have a lot of valuable data and I need to retrieve them.

Thanks you

 

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Dunno if this will help, but it's worth a shot!
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/fast.htm

"Daniel Lee" wrote:

> I installed a fresh copy of XP Prof on my computer. Before I did this, I did
> the Files and Settings Wizard, got the old data on two .DAT files IMG00001
> and IMG00002, one is over 2GB and the other is about 1.7 GB.
>
> When I tried to retrieve the files on my new installation, I get the message
> " The location that you specified does not contain stored information.
> Please type a valid folder path into the edit box...... If you entered a
> path to a folder on a removable disk, the disk must be in the drive.
>
> I have XP Prof with SP2.
>
> I had the files on a USB harddrive formatted to FAT 32, I tried copying the
> files onto the computer hard disks, that did not help.
>
> Please HELP I have a lot of valuable data and I need to retrieve them.
>
> Thanks you
>

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Hi usasma,

Thanks for the info. I tried it out but it did not work. The fastconv
still did not recognize the file. I also tried the decompressing part, the
fastconv seemed to work with the decompressed file but then it stopped and I
go an error message "error 13".

Hope someone else can give me more help.

Thanks again

"usasma" wrote:

> Dunno if this will help, but it's worth a shot!
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/fast.htm
>
> "Daniel Lee" wrote:
>
> > I installed a fresh copy of XP Prof on my computer. Before I did this, I did
> > the Files and Settings Wizard, got the old data on two .DAT files IMG00001
> > and IMG00002, one is over 2GB and the other is about 1.7 GB.
> >
> > When I tried to retrieve the files on my new installation, I get the message
> > " The location that you specified does not contain stored information.
> > Please type a valid folder path into the edit box...... If you entered a
> > path to a folder on a removable disk, the disk must be in the drive.
> >
> > I have XP Prof with SP2.
> >
> > I had the files on a USB harddrive formatted to FAT 32, I tried copying the
> > files onto the computer hard disks, that did not help.
> >
> > Please HELP I have a lot of valuable data and I need to retrieve them.
> >
> > Thanks you
> >