most help i have ever needed HDD PROBLEM...[FIXED] Thanks LR
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most help i have ever needed HDD PROBLEM...[FIXED] Thanks LR
My main data drive that i use to keep all my stuff on has mysterioulsy wanted to loose its partition. I restarted and all the sudden i have no "W" drive (my 320gig HDD). The drive shows up in disk management like as if it was a new drive ready to be formatted and partitioned.
IT CANT BE!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, THIS IS AN CALLING ALL CARS DEAL. My life is on that disk and i need whats on it. My backup of it is from a few months ago and a lot has been added since then. I didnt want to go in and add a new partition in fear that it would wipe everything on it now.
what caused it and most importantly how can it be fixed?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!
IT CANT BE!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, THIS IS AN CALLING ALL CARS DEAL. My life is on that disk and i need whats on it. My backup of it is from a few months ago and a lot has been added since then. I didnt want to go in and add a new partition in fear that it would wipe everything on it now.
what caused it and most importantly how can it be fixed?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!
Last edited by Dragon_Cooler on Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:22 am, edited 1 time in total.
Same exact thing happened to me when i put a drive in my brother-in-laws computer, re-installed windows, and it was gone the EXACT same way. I have to use that Active file recovery program to pull all the files off of it and then reformat and copy them back over. It got a bad sector it seems, and wiped everything??..wierd!
http://www.file-recovery.net/
only thing you can do is try - DONT do anything to the drive!!!!!
run a restore program!!! if you try to even do the fdisk /mbr it can screw things up worse
Also if you have an external case, try putting it in there and see if you can read it.
Good luck, and I hope you take the time to let it recover!!!!!!!!!
Mike
http://www.file-recovery.net/
only thing you can do is try - DONT do anything to the drive!!!!!
run a restore program!!! if you try to even do the fdisk /mbr it can screw things up worse
Also if you have an external case, try putting it in there and see if you can read it.
Good luck, and I hope you take the time to let it recover!!!!!!!!!
Mike
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I had a similar situation (bad overclocking attempt) where the hard drive got corrupted and I was able to successfully get all of my data off the hard drive with some software called GetDataBack...
http://www.runtime.org/products.htm
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Lol... so we researched it together... I'll never forget that program... it was a life saver!Apoptosis wrote:I've also used getdataback for NTFS and it saved my ass a number of times... I also used it to save Justin's ass back when we were in college ;) I'm not sure why he said that he used the program because I recall it was me!
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I did not send my drive back... in fact, I am still using the same drive today. It was just corruption in my case from overclocking on a KT400 chipset mobo.
I'm not 100% sure, but I imagine it was caused by the data being sent to/from the hard drive at too high of a frequency... so basically the hard drive physically could not keep up with the rest of the system.
Do you have your system overclocked?
I'm not 100% sure, but I imagine it was caused by the data being sent to/from the hard drive at too high of a frequency... so basically the hard drive physically could not keep up with the rest of the system.
Do you have your system overclocked?
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