Help... Cannot Access a Hard Drive 2

[CptnJon]

Within the last hour I lost access to one of my hard drives (60gig)!! This happened on a reboot. Just before the system closed down (as I was rebooting) I saw an error message about some file but it disappeared too quickly to read or do anything about it!

So I opened up the event viewer to see what had happened and noticed that starting yesterday I had a number of System errors as follows:

Source: Disk Category: None Event ID: 11
Description: 'The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\D'

Then later yesterday another error as follows:

Source: Ntfs Category: Disk Event ID: 55
Description: 'The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume D:'

Note that I didn't know the errors were ocurring yesterday!

Then, when I rebooted today, I saw that the same event error (Ntfs one)had ocurred again and I now no longer had access to the drive!

I then decided to reboot and use the Recovery Console to access chkdsk. When I was able to run the chkdsk command on the drive I got the following error message "volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems"!!!

Does anyone have any ideas on where I go from here?? I have some data on that drive that I really need

 

[rodrunner79]

Why not just post the link here and share it with the forum? Is there a problem?

Yes, there's a problem, the file (app) is stored on my online briefcase, that I share with people i give the link to. I don't want just anybody accessing it. I hope that's a reasonable answer. So if you need it, please email me, with a subject EZ-Recovery...

 

[Isaacb]

well, the thing is that even when i go into Windows Disk management i am still unable to assigna a drive letter and it reconizes my drive as all free and un formated........i am unable to do anything but select delete partition and properties........all i would like to do is use it as i once did and have it apper on my computer....with my data, which RUNTIME SOFTWARE: getdataback for ntsf shows me but i am only able to copy it , and im not going to spend hours copying from that to my 60 GB drive...

 

[Isaacb]

basically my computer thinks my harddrive is new and won't let me use it unless its formatted......

 

[linney]

Isaacb,

The hard drive manufacturer will have free diagnostic software to thoroughly check your drive for problems.

HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console for Windows XP (Q307654)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q307/6/54.asp

Can you run ChkDsk / r from the Recovery Console? You could also look at the FixMbr command from the Recovery Console.

Partition format changed!
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[rodrunner79]

Hey guys, to all who emailed me, I just wanted to say that, I am closing that link in 24 hours. I hope the program helped. And again please do not redistribute the app or try to gain profit from it....