what happend to my hard drive????

dun-dun-dundun-dun-dun Member
edited January 2004 in Hardware
ok so like my computer ran fine. I had 6 hard drives in my system. Then one day I took 5 out and left the OS drive in.....

Then the time came I wanted my Music/Prog storage drive back. I hoooked it up, booted..... the bios detected my drive no problems. Windows booted, the drive was there.... but look what happend....... and when I open the drive my folders are there but named all weeeeeeird, and when I try to open those folders it gives that error.... check the pic

http://www.geocities.com/eyeamanurd/errrrror.html?1073822585707

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited January 2004
    Huh that's pretty fucked up. Why not put all the drives back in and see if it works. Could be something with the drive order on your hdd controller card. Or is this scsi in which case could be an issue with your scsi number schema perhaps.
  • dun-dun-dundun-dun-dun Member
    edited January 2004
    well I swapped IDE cables, and onboard spots and its doig the same thing.... its really weird. These are ata133 drives not scsi by the way. Im gunna reformat windows possibly tomorrow and maybe something may change. the drive I think was partioned into 15 gigs and the rest of the 250, maybe my partition crap screwed up
  • dun-dun-dundun-dun-dun Member
    edited January 2004
    I noticed my drive was booting as fat32, but I THINK It was ntfs. It shows up as a 14.6 gig drive though its a 250 gig drive. I partitioned the 250 into a 14.6 partition, and then the rest. In the 14 gig partition I had like 2 folders, but its showing a bunch of folders and files (that are named randomly with characters) that are quite possibly the folders and files that I had on the larger partition. None of the folders and files are accessable or have attributes.

    What I think is that the partition information was damaged.

    How can I recover this?? or am I completely screwed
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited January 2004
    Ummmm I think you are screwed. But you could check for some partition magic or disk doctor type stuff on the net. See if they find what's wrong with your drive. SOunds like the FAT table got screwed royally. But if you now went and partitioned the 250 into a 14.6 partition there is no going back from that.
  • dun-dun-dundun-dun-dun Member
    edited January 2004
    yeah I figured I should look into partition magic. I didnt format the 250 into the 14.6 just now.... it was like that before. I used the 14 gigs for desktop themes and what not, and the rest of the 230 some odd gigs was just general backup like music movies programs drivers etc..... It worked fine for months until I removed that drive....as it was a backup baskically, then when I needed something in the backup I put the drive back in.

    Maybe magnets? I dont know how it could have gotten exposed to magnets, but Im drawing a blank otherwise
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited January 2004
    I doubt it was magnets you need a pretty hardy magnet to do that kind of damage and it's got to be sitting on it for a good while. These things normally don't accidentally happen. Unless you are say working in a speaker shop and set the harddrive on a coil while you go to get some McDonalds....

    Anyway. My guess is your partition table got messed up somehow number of ways it can happen. Have you tried running a scandisk with full surface check on to see what it detects? Could be physical damage on that drive.
  • dun-dun-dundun-dun-dun Member
    edited January 2004
    hey thanks kryyst... I checked out another post that you helped a guy out in, I got the ACR data recovery thing and it found everything...... too bad I dont have a key.... tis expensive. But soon is all I have to say and da key is mine... some how ;)
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited January 2004
    yeah no problem if the data is there and intact there are ways of finding it. Good luck on your key hunt.
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