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

  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited October 2003
    The wd should show up in disk management anyway no matter what the state of the filesystem. I mean thats what disk magament does... creates filesystems.

    When you get desperate email me and I can help ya recover shit from filesystems that are not readable as long as the disk is functional for a short period of time while we recover stuff. If the dis doesn't spin up etc... then your shit outa luck. If the filesystem is trashed we gotta shot at it. If I were you I wouildn't even spin that disk up till you had software in place to recover its ass. Just pray you got a good hour or two of life left and we can get the data off and bail.

    Tex
  • PedialytePedialyte
    edited October 2003
    Hey i figured i would post here seeing as i have a very similar problem. I also have a WD 160gig that decieded to be screwed the other day. XP is screwed up on it but i can still see my data after installing xp on my other but much smaller HD (30 gig). My problem is that i want to get the data off my 160 but it obviously wont fit on the smaller working drive. after running chkdsk it either freezes or claims nothing is wrong. When trying to reinstall xp on the screwed drive it claims that it is unformated and needs to be before installation. Could my problem be related? any suggestions? I would rather not have to buy another 160 just for this problem but can understand if that is my only option. FYI since i got this 160 and started using the add on card (ATA100) that came with it my smaller 30 gig drive has gone corrupt twice and now my big 160 has apperently done the same... could it be the add on card causing all this trouble? Maybe a new motherboard would prevent this by not using the addon card?

    Athlon XP 1800+
    Abit KX7 (non-raid)
    256MB RAM
    WD 160gig 7200 ATA100
    IBM 30gig 7200 ATA100
    Generic PCI ATA card (came with WD Drive)
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited October 2003
    I use promise add-on cards all the time if thats any consolation and a Ultra 100 tx2 can be had on eBay for 5 bucks.

    have you done a memory check lately? Get docmemory and lets start from there and make sure everything seems sound. And you don't OC or anything for now right?

    You have all the XP patchs and updates right? The catch on the other bigger drive is that XP thinks its unformatted so the drive needs cleaned with something. When you see it in the disk management section when you boot from the smaller driver it looks ok in there? have you tried booting from a ERD disk and doing a chkdsk from there?

    More info

    Tex
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