CHKDSK exploded, now i have a found.000 folder
oh man, do i hvae a problem...
my machine decided to do a check disk with out my consent, then it proceeded to put TONS of clusters all over the place or somthing, this is all on my raid array of corse.
so all told.
all of my files are incomplete, theres about 400gb unaccounted for, and now i have a found.000 direectory in the root of the drive. *sigh* any ideas on how to get my stuff back?
my machine decided to do a check disk with out my consent, then it proceeded to put TONS of clusters all over the place or somthing, this is all on my raid array of corse.
so all told.
all of my files are incomplete, theres about 400gb unaccounted for, and now i have a found.000 direectory in the root of the drive. *sigh* any ideas on how to get my stuff back?
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Essentially speaking, in either case, you don't recover them. The files are already broken; it's not just a case of fixing a file system.
I've used this product for years but have never tried it to recover files that have already been broken as Thrax pointed out. In fact, I don't know of a tool that can do that either. It might be useful, however, in finding older revisions of some of these files that have been marked for deletion but not written over yet.
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If you DO intend to attempt any data recovery, I recommend you shut that system down until you are ready to do so. Any changes you make could overwrite files you might otherwise be able to recover.
Another very decent HDD utility that's been around for a long time is by GRC. You can find it HERE. In fact, he (Steve Gibson) has a no. of very good utilities on his site - many of which are free.
i got some tips to try from my boss here but we'll hav to see.
Be sure to let us know what you try - what works (and doesn't for that matter).
Good Luck!!
but i gotta give the ol' college effort.
Just take this as a (very hard) lesson learned. It is soooooo important to backup and often.
Get the hardware you need to support backing up all of your data on a regular & frequent basis. An external HDD over firewire might do the trick for you. Just buy an external HDD enclosure (preferably one w/ a fan inside - usually the enclosures that will also support an optical drive will have a fan.) Then buy the capacity HDD you want. (At least the capacity to support triple the amount of data you anticipate you'll be backing up.) There's some free backup software out there that you can automate your backups with. However, I've used for many years what is now called "Backup MyPC" (used to be years ago Veritas Backup Exec). It keeps getting sold off from one company to the next. Sonic has it now. Bypass the busy (for novices) UI and go straight to the Backup MyPC app w/in the suite. It's a great little backup utility.
but i have a NAS comming that can accomodate my needs.
So, what's an "NAS"? Can I have one, too...???
the one im getting allows me to have service accounts and quotas on peoples accounts.but im greedy and only i will have a service account to it.
they sell small NAS's, but im not familiar with the term over the top
So, you're gonna use this beast for data redundancy or backup of that 1.6T, yes? I mean, there's gotta be a way to backup all that data. Otherwise your south side is hangin' in the wind all the time. Just countin' down 'till that next inevitable crash.....
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BTW, like a good girl, I looked it up (NAS). Now, I've done gone an' larned sompin' ailse! Thankyou, Armo...
I need some back up with less me in the mix.( btw this kind of crap happens to me all the time )
plus the NAS will be kinda like a go between to get to data, instead of having share premisions per folder, i can set it all up once on the NAS. as it sits no NO ONE can write files to this machine ( for good reason ), but the NAS has a public folder where you can upload and download with no problem.
the nas will server as a backup to important files, as well as a file sharing hub. the drives in my array now are getting old, they are about 2 years old, and i never turn the machine off. The drives arent made for what im using them for.
btw you can get small nas's like 250GB, they arent too bad, but its like the same aspect of sharing out a USB drive. only the NAS never stops serving up files if you turn your machine off.