Wrote new boot sector...data unrecoverable?

[mruseless1]

OK, OK, I'm a dumbass. THis is what happened.

I was having frequent crashes and hangs, so I ran Seagate Tools. It showed a critical file structure errors. I ran the Windows Recovery Console from CD. Tried running CHKDSK. It told me there were "unrecoverable errors". I rebooted to the recovery console and tried again. This time it gave me another message (I can't remember, should have written it down). In the past I've temporarily fixed problems on this disk by using FIXBOOT. Tried it this time, and now I'm hosed. The computer sees the drive as very small and without WinXP installed.

Is there any way to recover my data?

Eric in Denver

 

[stduc]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Sounds to me like you have a flaky drive there.

Personally I would first try using spinrite to report on the drives state of health & if possible repair any bad sectors and recover all available data at sector level.

Then

I would probably use a program called getdataback to recover my files.

I suggest you Google for where to get these from.

 

[mruseless1]

Thanks!

I heard about GetDataBack on another forum as well, and it works great. All my data is recoverable.

I'll first recover the data to another drive, then I'll run a SeaTools full scan to see if the drive is screwed. Its still under warranty, so I might just contact Seagate and see if they'll replace it.

Eric