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:

[spystyle]

XP suX
Use 2000 pro, PM me if you need a copy

[SirPeale]

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?

[SirPeale]

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!

[fredster]

Did this "getdataback" utility check the files? Can you read them?

Where did you get it?  I could use something like that.

[SirPeale]

It checked the files, and copied them to another drive.

[Quarters]

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.