How to restore a NTFS file system?

panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
edited October 2003 in Hardware
I'm trying to get all the files I can out of my two failed western digital disks. After getting no response from one drive for a couple of days, that drive sprang to life and now partially works. I was able to copy alot of the files on that drive to the fully functional one (an IBM Deskstar).

Now there is the other western digital drive. CMOS detects it, as does windows device manager. However it doesn't show up in my computer, nor in Disk Management. Apparently the file system is damaged somehow?

When the system boots up, it wants to run chkdsk on that disk, and it goes through the process. Near the end of the process however when it writes security descriptors to certain files, and it stops at about the 20th file for several minutes. I guess it froze somehow? Is there anyway to restore the fie system or is there something else wrong?

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    That is one disk I suggest you give a go on with GetDataBack
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited October 2003
    I tried that, however every single sector gives an I/O error. I tried a block 150 clusters long and it got squat out of it, every cluster giving me a I/O error. Unlike with the partially functional drive, the program doesn't hang; it continues to scan without being able to actually scan any of the sectors until it's gone over the entire disk.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Hmm..That disk might be farther gone than the other.
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited October 2003
    The other drive is fully functional now except for the Windows directory. Explorer hangs whenever I try to get into that folder.
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