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Hard Drive Horked - Again!
SirPeale:
I have no idea what happened, but my drive suddenly became non-bootable.
That aside, I tried using the XP CD to repair the file table. For whatever reason, it decided to write a FAT table instead of an NTFS table, and everything is gone.
The drive was part'd to two parts, and the other 1/2 is fine. To be safe, I've now backed up that data to another drive.
It's the other data I'm worried about. I *can* get the data back with a recovery program, but it will take a very long time, and it'll have to write all that data to another drive.
Is there a program that will allow me to just fix what's broken so I can recover my data, or am I better off with the recovery tool?
SkateDetroit:
Try sticking the drive in a working computer and running CHKDisk on it. See if that can fix any errors. It does the trick occasionally, depending on what's wrong. Hope this helps.
~A
shmokes:
I think you have to run chkdsk with the -f switch if you want it to actually do anything.
SirPeale:
chkdsk was the first thing I tried, and it wouldn't run.
Harry Potter:
Try this: