hard drive corruption!?!?!

[Raging]

Is it possible to recover my hard drive and all the files back?

i got this error this morning when i try to access my drive.

the drive has very important data on it,and lots of it...

cheers.

 

[Rastalovich]

Well, I`m not gonna suggest this, cos it doesn`t always work - however I will just share a recent experience...

An 80g media drive of mine did that a number of weeks ago. I tried tools for recovering and so on, but cos of the 50million files on it and the ones that had been deleted, it was gonna involve an incredible amount of work to get my stuff off. The drive was showing surface errors et-all.

So.. I did a chkdsk on it >.<

AND it recovered everything !

... and the surface errors mysteriously disappeared after I repartitioned and formatted...

I do warn u tho, I`ve tried this in the past and the contents became totally unusable. I guess it depends on the cause of the error or something.

 

[Raging]

how do i run chkdsk on it?

 

[JN]

From the command prompt in windows: chkdsk G:\ /f

If my memory serves me correctly.

 

[Raging]

had a look on wiki and google and it seems that is the right command,thanks

gonna give it a go now,hopefully it will work.

Edit:well it doesn seem to accept the command,the command prompt window flashes up for a split second then goes,nothin :s

 

[Rastalovich]

ah, be sure to goto Start->Run.. type in CMD and return.

In the dos console, type chkdsk [partition letter]: /F (to fix stuff) /V (to display the names, and what it`s doing)

e.g. if u`r duff drive is D:\ u use - chkdsk D: /F /V

I use the /V qualifier to see more of what it`s doing. I personally h8 it when progs run and seem to be stuck for ages not outputting anything so u don`t know if they`re working or not.

 

[Raging]

well i get an error on chkdsk

"the type of file system is ntfs,unable to determine volumer version and state"

chkdsk aborted

it's not looking very good so far

 

[nrage]

Download a trial of this:

http://www.runtime.org/products.htm

and see what it can find/recover. It takes a long while because it scans the disk surface for NTFS file headers. The demo will do the scan but wont recover the files, but at least you'll know they can be recovered.

Last time a drive died on me it was due to the boot and partition information being corrupted. I ended up buying a copy of GetDataBack NTFS cos it was the best piece of software I found, and I tried plenty of them.

 

[Raging]

Download a trial of this:

http://www.runtime.org/products.htm

and see what it can find/recover. It takes a long while because it scans the disk surface for NTFS file headers. The demo will do the scan but wont recover the files, but at least you'll know they can be recovered.

Last time a drive died on me it was due to the boot and partition information being corrupted. I ended up buying a copy of GetDataBack NTFS cos it was the best piece of software I found, and I tried plenty of them.

thanks for the link,i have it scanning now and it seems to be finding a lot of stuff

fingers crossed..

 

[prosser13]

I had the same problem with one of my partitions, and I use Active@ File Recovery - great little program

 

[Rastalovich]

I had the same problem with one of my partitions, and I use Active@ File Recovery - great little program

Ah now, I almost used that - it is truely a great prog, so are some of the other Active@ thingies.