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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:50 pm  Post subject: hard drive corrupted
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my hard drive says its not formatted but only on one folder.can anyone tell me any good tools to recover my data?and the rest of the drive seems fine should i get all the stuff that works off it first?


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:38 pm  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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About that last sentence: yes!!!

I had this same problem when I transferred my old HDD into my new PC: some folders were OK, others were corrupted and some moviefiles gave me blocky images. I formatted the HDD which failed and I ended up buying a new one. Backup all your stuff, you won't regret it.

About Data recovery tools: I have tried various programs in the past and none of them worked. It depends on how f00ked the HDD is.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:59 pm  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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I had a corrupt HDD a couple of months ago and it was totally fubar, I went into the technical issues here. The program I used to try and recover the stuff was on Usenet at the time and I reckon if I'd recently done a defrag before the crash then I might have had a high success rate but as it was I lost just about everything.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:08 pm  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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Using windows? run checkdisk!

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:18 am  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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Unless your partition is totally goosed in which case windows sees it as raw disk space and can't chkdsk it.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:22 pm  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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Try the Inside Security Rescue Toolkit (INSERT). It's meant for such issues: http://www.inside-security.de/INSERT_en.html

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:51 pm  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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i got all the stuff off the drive and seems to be fine except one folder which is like 30 gigs when ever i click it says drive not formatted want to format now? im going to try some of the stuff u guys told me about tonight.does it matter that its a external?


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:18 pm  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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killmoney wrote:
does it matter that its a external?


It should not. Good luck!

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:36 am  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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Since I last posted I've had another try and File Scavenger gives much better results but still expect some corruption.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:49 am  Post subject: Re: hard drive corrupted
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thanks for the advice i used File Scavenger and recovered everything the problem i see is that
some of the videos seem kinda messed up like bad interlacing but im stilll happy with it thanks again


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