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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: SirPeale on February 09, 2005, 08:06:41 pm
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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?
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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
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I think you have to run chkdsk with the -f switch if you want it to actually do anything.
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chkdsk was the first thing I tried, and it wouldn't run.
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Try this:
(http://www.windows-goodies.mcmail.com/graphics/hammer.gif)
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XP suX
Use 2000 pro, PM me if you need a copy
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Gah - I went forward and used my recovery utility (EZ Recovery). I would have sworn that I set up that partition as NTFS. Let it do a full scan do determine that, it took eight hours, and didn't find diddly. So I changed some parameters, and let it do another scan, same thing.
For giggles I let it do a scan on FAT32, and it found it in ten seconds.
It took approx. two hours to fully scan the FAT32 partition, and everything was *garbage.* There were like six recoverable files. I don't get it.
Additionally, this is a hardware fault, why would Windows 2000 be any better?
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Mate of mine hooked me up with a program called GetDataBack. EZ Recovery didn't do diddly. This is pulling *everything* out, and do I mean everything. Wish I had this program a couple years ago, some important stuff I had back then got killed.
I'm backing up my email TONIGHT!
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Did this "getdataback" utility check the files? Can you read them?
Where did you get it? I could use something like that.
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It checked the files, and copied them to another drive.
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I have used r-studio lots of times with excellent results.
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
Do not use the drive if you intend to recover data from it.