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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.

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.

04-11-06, 10:00 PM

Take a quick look at this thread, it may help you... and best of luck with it!

04-11-06, 10:40 PM

as long as the drive mounts there are loads of file recovery progs out there file restoration pro worked for me twice at work found files from a total cluster Feck unreadable drive

04-11-06, 10:47 PM

Cheers felipe, apophes although I'm trying not to do a "file recovery" as

1 - haven't got new laptop.....yet
2 - Laptop won't have a 160gb drive anyway for me to recover the files over
3 - I want the hard drive to work again! Can't afford another 160gb HD to recover stuff over to.

I'm still attempting to do an mbr recover/repair although I understand if you mess about with it, you risk losing everything.

04-11-06, 10:51 PM

the one i use you dont have to recover the full drive just files you want so you can do a few runs if you dont have the space to do it all at once

05-11-06, 12:52 AM

Using a program called Testdisk under XP OS, it appears the MFT and MFT mirror are 'bad', and the program failed to repair them.

04-11-06, 09:05 PM	#1
instigator Guest Posts: n/a	PC Help 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. 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.

04-11-06, 10:00 PM	#2
Filipe M. Guest Posts: n/a	Take a quick look at this thread, it may help you... and best of luck with it!

04-11-06, 10:40 PM	#3
Apophes Guest Posts: n/a	as long as the drive mounts there are loads of file recovery progs out there file restoration pro worked for me twice at work found files from a total cluster Feck unreadable drive

04-11-06, 10:47 PM	#4
instigator Guest Posts: n/a	Cheers felipe, apophes although I'm trying not to do a "file recovery" as 1 - haven't got new laptop.....yet 2 - Laptop won't have a 160gb drive anyway for me to recover the files over 3 - I want the hard drive to work again! Can't afford another 160gb HD to recover stuff over to. I'm still attempting to do an mbr recover/repair although I understand if you mess about with it, you risk losing everything.

04-11-06, 10:51 PM	#5
Apophes Guest Posts: n/a	the one i use you dont have to recover the full drive just files you want so you can do a few runs if you dont have the space to do it all at once

05-11-06, 12:52 AM	#6
instigator Guest Posts: n/a	Using a program called Testdisk under XP OS, it appears the MFT and MFT mirror are 'bad', and the program failed to repair them.