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HDD filesystem problem
Name: david Date: August 8, 2003 at 18:57:49 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: AMD 1.4/512 RAM
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I had a problem earlier where I had 2 messed up HDDs on 1 computer, so i slaved them onto one to recover my very valuable data and one worked great, and on the second one that the windows xp installer said was "corrupt or full.." etc said in xp that it needed to be formatted and asked if wanted to do so. This is the drive with the most valuable data, so i said no. I tried chkdsk and it said it was in the RAW filesystem, and then another time it said that part of the MBR or some other sector was not NTFS so it could not continue. All windows wants to do is format my drive, and i really would do anything short of paying someone $200/hr to recover that data. Is there any way i can fix the filesystem?
Name: kkk Date: August 8, 2003 at 19:18:56 Pacific
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all drives need to be in the same file sytem to 'see' each other.
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Response Number 2
Name: david Date: August 8, 2003 at 19:28:20 Pacific
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ok here is an update... i tried to use disk investigator to see the raw data on my HDD but even that could not read the drive. MY main drive upon which i am running XP to execute all of this is NTFS with some of my data backed up.. the other drive WAS NTFS before it somehow got corrupted. is there any way to fix this? i think the problem is in the boot sector or the MBR
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Response Number 3
Name: david Date: August 8, 2003 at 19:35:54 Pacific
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every time i try to access the drive from any file recovery prog it always says "Division by zero" and it stops trying or locks up (depending on the program)
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Response Number 4
Name: hwood Date: August 8, 2003 at 19:39:57 Pacific
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I'm not sure what kkk meant by "all drives need to be in the same file sytem to 'see' each other". I can tell you for sure, as I have setup many systems this way, that a Windows 2000 or Windows XP system can access any combination of FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS filesystem drives. They do not all have to be the same file system.
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Response Number 5
Name: Scott B. Date: August 8, 2003 at 19:51:47 Pacific
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David, Check your e-mail I sent you a program called Restoration, of course with anything in the mail scan for virus' always. Might work might not, worth a try. And XP can see ntfs or fat32, also.
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Response Number 6
Name: dj pyrotechnics Date: August 8, 2003 at 21:41:57 Pacific
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that program did not work. when i try to access the drive im trying to fix it crashes
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Response Number 7
Name: Richard59 Date: August 8, 2003 at 22:51:01 Pacific
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Have you tried any of the HDD manufacturer's diagnostic bootdisks? They won't help recover data for you but will at least confirm whether the drive is actually functioning.
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Response Number 8
Name: gabep11 Date: August 9, 2003 at 07:47:53 Pacific
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Just a thought, Have you checked out ONTRACK'a website? They have recovery programs. Rgds.
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Response Number 9
Name: Scott B. Date: August 9, 2003 at 14:15:45 Pacific
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What program did you mess up this hard drive with?
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Response Number 10
Name: david Date: August 10, 2003 at 11:12:05 Pacific
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i was using Ontrack SystemSuite 4.0's diskfixer feature... i returned to my computer with the regular BSOD and it was either Ntfs.sys or the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, both of which i recieve regularly, usually with processor or graphics intensive programs (video, games, so on.
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Response Number 11
Name: dj pyrotechnics Date: August 10, 2003 at 18:20:14 Pacific
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i just tried ontrack's data recovery program and it only worked when i told it that my filesystem was a RAW filesystem and all my files came back as FIL041.exe with variations on the number and extensions, mostly *.GWD *.BMP and *.EXE. Anyone else have any ideas or recomendations?
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