stephenkall
Programmer
Hello, Folks.
At first, I have to apologize, because my English is very poor.
Let's get on it. I have an Western Digital hard disk.
It's a WD Caviar 310000 103727-002 10.0GB 5400 RPM HD
It has been used with a Compaq Deskpro computer. Its Compaq Spare is 320662-001.
(An identical hard disk drive is this one, shown here:
This HD was using a FAT32 system, with only one basic partition, and Windows 98 was installed onto it.
Recently, during some sort of storm, we had a blackout here. And after that, this HD came up with strange behavior.
The major problem is that I need some e-mails stored in Windows\Application Data folder, but everytime I try to access this folder, I get an "Your disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" message.
I tried many recovery tools, such as ontrack data recovery system (a.k.a. tiramissu in older versions), powerquest lost and found and others. None of them brought my idx files back, but during the Ontrack Easy Recovery's scan, I DID see some of the files shown in the status bar. But when I looked at the folder, there wasn't anything usefull.
Do you guys know anyway to help me with these files?
What else should I do?
Thank you from now!
Best Regards,
Vinicius
At first, I have to apologize, because my English is very poor.
Let's get on it. I have an Western Digital hard disk.
It's a WD Caviar 310000 103727-002 10.0GB 5400 RPM HD
It has been used with a Compaq Deskpro computer. Its Compaq Spare is 320662-001.
(An identical hard disk drive is this one, shown here:
This HD was using a FAT32 system, with only one basic partition, and Windows 98 was installed onto it.
Recently, during some sort of storm, we had a blackout here. And after that, this HD came up with strange behavior.
The major problem is that I need some e-mails stored in Windows\Application Data folder, but everytime I try to access this folder, I get an "Your disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" message.
I tried many recovery tools, such as ontrack data recovery system (a.k.a. tiramissu in older versions), powerquest lost and found and others. None of them brought my idx files back, but during the Ontrack Easy Recovery's scan, I DID see some of the files shown in the status bar. But when I looked at the folder, there wasn't anything usefull.
Do you guys know anyway to help me with these files?
What else should I do?
Thank you from now!
Best Regards,
Vinicius