After CHKDSK deleted all my files, indexes and replaced the security
descriptions on my secondary 160GB drive, I've tried to recover these with
Winternal's Disk Commander.
Under "lost volumes" it found:
- One possible 160GB NTFS volume
- Four possible 3MB FAT 12 volumes, distributed...
Yep, it sure looked that way!
When I look closer, not more than about 100 files seem to be recoverable.
Now gonna get Winternals Disk Commander and give it a try, but not really confident it will find more.
Da*n chkdsk! How do you disable it??
You're being helpful here pbxman, really appreciate you taking this time!
The unchks and filechk programs corrected 6 files. I then ran a demo version of R-Studio on the large disk - after 12 hours scanning it had found:
NTFS MFT File Entries: 179
NTFS Directories Entries: 1935
NTFS Boot...
I sure would like to know the reason why chkdsk deletes data - it could happen again!
BIOS recognizes the full disk potential. And after formatting, I could still see it, but after a while it complained and ran chkdsk.
Thanks a thousand pbxman for taking your time with me!
I'll download and try this program. However, it seems to me - after reading the info - that it only deals with chk-files? Like I mentioned, these are just but a few and they total a couple of MB. I lost more than 100GB/15000 files - could...
Help!
There's probably no way I can recover this data, but before giving up all hope and format the drive, I'll give it a try here among all you knowledgable and helpful people.
HDD1: IBM 75GXP - 46 GB
HDD2: Maxtor D540X-G4 - 160 GB
OS: W2K SP3
After having formatted HDD1 and reinstalled W2K...
Hi pbxman! Unfortunately not. There's a directory called "found.000" and under that 6 sub directories "dir0000.chk - dir0006.chk" with some 20 files + 5 files "file0000.chk - file0005.chk" ranging from 2-4000kB. Besides this, some original directories are still...
Help!
There's probably no way I can recover this data, but before giving up all hope and format the drive, I'll give it a try here among all you knowledgable and helpful people.
HDD1: IBM 75GXP - 46 GB
HDD2: Maxtor D540X-G4 - 160 GB
OS: W2K SP3
After having formatted HDD1 and reinstalled W2K...
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