I lost a 13G disk drive just last weekend, when I switched in a new untested
80-connector IDE cable.  On booting, the BIOS recognised the drive, but would
not boot up.
1.  I tried various recovery tools, putting it on another computer as D-drive,
including but not limited to Acronis Recovery Expert deluxe, GetDataBackFromFAT,
and all indicated that the disk is free space.
2. I looked into raw sectors using WinHex, and It said that the first FAT was
corrupted, but the second FAT was there.
3. Fortunately for me (hopfully), I defragged the whole drive (which has only
one partition), using Vopt, to zero defrag and zero gap, just before I made the
change.  When I looked into certain area that appears to be the FAT, all the
chains are still intact.
4. The problem that I have now is that I do not have a detailed map of the
Windows98 disk structure, and that prevents me from proceeding further from
here.  My old MSDN CD (1999-Apr) said that the Win98-DDK is not available to be
included at that time, referring me to the website.  The Website required me to
be a current subscriber to log on!  (which I am not now).
5. Are there good source of this information (Win98 Disk Structure/Fat32-layout)
available anywhere on any programming sites?
Thanks.
Tony