ok this is what happened (long story).
I had a Maxtor diamondmax 16 HDD (250GB)
2 partitions: 100/150
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I backed up my files on both partitions
I put in my winXP disk to format and install windows on another physical drive (Deskstar)
I got suspicious at that point because the windows installation recognized my 150 GB partition as an "Unknown partition with 100% of space free"
I decided i will worry about that later, and proceeded to format the other drive.
Format complete, but before windows isntall started, it ran CHKDSK on my 150 GB partition (on the non-windows physcal drive)
CHKDSK found errors with the IDE index of every single one of the files on that partition (or something like taht). It eplaced the IDE indexes and then proceeded to "recover orphaned file 123123 into file directory 123123" etc for every single one of my files.
I was wondering "WTH" at this stage and proceeded withi windows install on the other drive.
Windows installed fine. I tested my 250 GB hdd. the 100GB partition was 100% normal
my 150 GB partition however...
File name and sizes 100% correct
All files with size <540bytes were fine
All files with size >540 bytes were corrupted.
Now, i am guessing that all the data is intact...but one sector is not connected to the next.
So...what happened and is there any way of fixing this?
I had a Maxtor diamondmax 16 HDD (250GB)
2 partitions: 100/150
_______________________________________________________
I backed up my files on both partitions
I put in my winXP disk to format and install windows on another physical drive (Deskstar)
I got suspicious at that point because the windows installation recognized my 150 GB partition as an "Unknown partition with 100% of space free"
I decided i will worry about that later, and proceeded to format the other drive.
Format complete, but before windows isntall started, it ran CHKDSK on my 150 GB partition (on the non-windows physcal drive)
CHKDSK found errors with the IDE index of every single one of the files on that partition (or something like taht). It eplaced the IDE indexes and then proceeded to "recover orphaned file 123123 into file directory 123123" etc for every single one of my files.
I was wondering "WTH" at this stage and proceeded withi windows install on the other drive.
Windows installed fine. I tested my 250 GB hdd. the 100GB partition was 100% normal
my 150 GB partition however...
File name and sizes 100% correct
All files with size <540bytes were fine
All files with size >540 bytes were corrupted.
Now, i am guessing that all the data is intact...but one sector is not connected to the next.
So...what happened and is there any way of fixing this?