Hard Drive disaster! PLEASE Help!

[qzack96]

I used Acronis OS Selector: Rescue Media Buider to make a rescue CD.
I rebooted my PC and I was taken into OS Selector's GUI.
It seemed to only have picked up 1 of 3 hard drives on my computer. It only picked up my 320GB hard drive- my biggest hard drive and one with the most data. (I have a different OS on each hard drive.)
It then prompts me, telling me that it needs to resize the partition contained on that hard drive from 298Gb -> 298Gb. So I click next, etc. It immediately brought a progress bar which wasn't moving at all. I let my computer sit for about 5 minutes, and it moved 1 notch. I thought something was fishy, and I hit the reset button on my computer. I logged back onto XP(off my 80GB drive), and went into My Computer. I tried accessing the 320GB and was told that "F:\ is not formatted, would you like to format it now?". In a rush of panic and fear, I used a program called Testdisk to rebuild the hard drive's partition, as this program has worked in the past. I didn't solve the problem.

Every time I now try to access the hard drive from My Computer, I am given the message
"F:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"
I am extremely stressed about this, and I can't begin to explain how important the files in this hard drive are.
I REALLY REALLY need the information contained on this hard drive. PLEASE PLEASE give me some ideas on how to get the partition back, so I can access the hard drive like I used to. ANY help is much appreciated! Thank you !

PS. The hard drive is physically healthy, and has no mechanical problems guaranteed.

 

[goombawaho]

If all the rest of the troubleshooting steps fail that you are about to receive, make a BART PE CD to boot from. At least you can recover your data and reinstall the OS. If you have SATA drives, you might want to add the SATA drivers to the CD so you don't have to use a floppy and hit F6

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

http://users.telenet.be/jtdoom/basetute/BartPE/OverFlow/DPs_BartPE_HelpFile.htm

 

[goombawaho]

And don't double post next time!!!!! I see you in the XP forum too.

 

[wolluf]

Not sure what you were doing initially - Acronis rescue disk doesn't DO anything of its own bat, so you must have chosen a function to run. As you reset the machine in the middle of that function (which from what you say involved resizing the partition back to same size it was!) you will have left the partition in an indeterminate state. Have you tried booting from the rescue disk again & trying the same function you did initially (in the hope Acronis will be able to spot an interrupted process and complete it?)

If not, you'll probably need to use data recovery software (eg, getdataback is very good) - but you'll need another drive to recover all the data to.