need help fixing a partition on a slave drive

[romanempyr]

i have an external 300 gigs drive that i use to store files.
out of nowhere it stopped functioning. i checked some stuff out and i realized that the partition is corrupted while the data is still on the drive.

besides partition table doctor program, is there any other way of fixing the corrupted partition?

any help would be greatly apprreciated.

thank you

 

[lb63640]

Possible Acronis Disk Director, but I wouldn't bet on it.

 

[romanempyr]

so there is no software at all?
i dont want to go through the hassle of getting the data out and then reformating.

are you sure there is no other way? i would do anything!

 

[micker377]

Without a partition table, it would be like driving to New York without a road map. To restore (or copy) the files, Windows needs the partition table to tell it where the files are so you can recover them. Can you mount this drive in a desktop as a slave? What OS? What type of "filestore" (Fat32 or NTFS), is this? You may be able to use chkdisk. Do a google search to find a "Partition Table Restore".

 

[romanempyr]

i understand the importance of a partition table.
my drive is a SLAVE drive. there is no OS on it. it is used to back up the data. i dont remember the filesystem that was on it but i would think it would be fat32 bc that was the default when i bought the drive. the drive is physically fine and works OK, just the partition table is corrupt.
i need a way to fix it so i can start using the drive again.
is there a way i can do that?

any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[micker377]

Go to Google to find a "Partition Table Restore". I tried, and found pages of them.

 

[micker377]

Like I said, go to Google - there are pages of programs.

 

[wolluf]

I'd reckon the best you can hope for is to recover data from the drive - unlikely to be able to restore it to full working order without reformatting (and you should try to find out why its lost partition table - or it may just happen again).

Also - suspect its ntfs if its one partition of 300GB (I keep rading you can create fat32 > 128Gb, but even if that's true, the minimum allocation unit size would mean extreme waste of space, so ntfs.

ps - have ypu tried running chkdsk on it? have your tried drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility?

 

[romanempyr]

no i didnt run chkdsk on it. i dont think i need to bc i see the data on it.
where do i get my manufacturer's (maxtor in my case) diagnostic utility? i cant find it on their site!

any help is appreciated.

thank you

 

[rvnguy]

romanempyr,

The Maxtor diag program is here

MAxtor's download URL

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software Downloads

rvnguy



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