instigator
04-11-06, 09:05 PM
Hi
Just sold my PC on thursday and backed everything up to my external drive and unplugged it via the usual way. The disc was about 99% full with only 1gb of it's 160gb available left.
I gave the Hard Disk to a friend to watch a few films that were on it. Now it's a friend I 100% trust, so when he says he didn't drop it/screw about with it/put it on a large magnet, I believe him.
I got the Hard Drive back today and it's giving me the old: "This file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" I cannot open anything on the hard drive although it is detected when I either plug it in via USB or IDE (as a slave drive.) When I check the 'local disc properties" it shows the file system as "RAW" and shows no space left which is fine).
I have been told that it could be the 'mbr' file that is screwed and it seems possible that it could be repaired. However, I have tried a few programs and have absolutely no idea what I am doing with them. My knowledge in BIOS or DOS is non-existant.
This hard Drive has all my music, all my pictures, all my old University work and most importantly all of my Outlook emails. I can't afford to lose any of them. :shock: :cry:
Can anyone offer any advice? I would like to sort it myself if it is at all possible. :) Typical it should happen now, when I really need to copy some of the data over to the new Laptop. :x
Just sold my PC on thursday and backed everything up to my external drive and unplugged it via the usual way. The disc was about 99% full with only 1gb of it's 160gb available left.
I gave the Hard Disk to a friend to watch a few films that were on it. Now it's a friend I 100% trust, so when he says he didn't drop it/screw about with it/put it on a large magnet, I believe him.
I got the Hard Drive back today and it's giving me the old: "This file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" I cannot open anything on the hard drive although it is detected when I either plug it in via USB or IDE (as a slave drive.) When I check the 'local disc properties" it shows the file system as "RAW" and shows no space left which is fine).
I have been told that it could be the 'mbr' file that is screwed and it seems possible that it could be repaired. However, I have tried a few programs and have absolutely no idea what I am doing with them. My knowledge in BIOS or DOS is non-existant.
This hard Drive has all my music, all my pictures, all my old University work and most importantly all of my Outlook emails. I can't afford to lose any of them. :shock: :cry:
Can anyone offer any advice? I would like to sort it myself if it is at all possible. :) Typical it should happen now, when I really need to copy some of the data over to the new Laptop. :x