Shinobi2600
Technical User
Hello all,
First off, this forum rocks, so much info!
Now the question at hand, and i'll describe as much as possible. I am running Windows XP Professional on an Athlon 1700+, with Asus A7V266 mobo, 512 DDR ram, 120 WD master. About 2 weeks ago i was downloading to my 200GB WESTERN DIGITAL 8mb cache hard drive. This was my slave drive. I went to open the hard drive (labeld "area 51" and i get a message "D:\ is corrupt" I was still downloading to the drive when i saw this prompt. I restarted the computer. Now i get the message "drive is unformatted, would you like to format now" No of course, b/c gigs of data will be lost. The hard disk was in NTFS format.
I have tried the following measures for recovery: 1. System restore ( i knew it wouldn't work). 2. Disattach and reattach hard drive *hard drive was rather hot at time*. 3. Use recovery programs. I have used several programs to recover my hard drive such as: O&O UnErase, "Get Data Back", "Recover It All", and R Studio NTFS & FAT which works the best so far. I've also tried ghosting my hd to a new one, however the only result is 2 200gig hd's that aren't recognized. Virus Scans picked up nothing. HERE are several links to pics i took from R Studio. Some files are recoverable. I hope they may clarify what happened:
Some Partions found-
Some Directories Found-
Corrupted Directories and Files (mostly my mp3's i think)-
My Final step is to see if Linux might be able to read the hard drive and see if anything is recoverable.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
First off, this forum rocks, so much info!
Now the question at hand, and i'll describe as much as possible. I am running Windows XP Professional on an Athlon 1700+, with Asus A7V266 mobo, 512 DDR ram, 120 WD master. About 2 weeks ago i was downloading to my 200GB WESTERN DIGITAL 8mb cache hard drive. This was my slave drive. I went to open the hard drive (labeld "area 51" and i get a message "D:\ is corrupt" I was still downloading to the drive when i saw this prompt. I restarted the computer. Now i get the message "drive is unformatted, would you like to format now" No of course, b/c gigs of data will be lost. The hard disk was in NTFS format.
I have tried the following measures for recovery: 1. System restore ( i knew it wouldn't work). 2. Disattach and reattach hard drive *hard drive was rather hot at time*. 3. Use recovery programs. I have used several programs to recover my hard drive such as: O&O UnErase, "Get Data Back", "Recover It All", and R Studio NTFS & FAT which works the best so far. I've also tried ghosting my hd to a new one, however the only result is 2 200gig hd's that aren't recognized. Virus Scans picked up nothing. HERE are several links to pics i took from R Studio. Some files are recoverable. I hope they may clarify what happened:
Some Partions found-
Some Directories Found-
Corrupted Directories and Files (mostly my mp3's i think)-
My Final step is to see if Linux might be able to read the hard drive and see if anything is recoverable.
Any help is greatly appreciated.