On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Eric Smith wrote:
So.... I just booted my Windows XP system and it decided that one of
the disks is corrupted. So it ran chkdsk/scandsk, splatting text on
the screen. Luckily I was actually at my computer and saw the text
output (and took notes.)
Anyone know if that text is actually saved somewhere?
I've poked around in system logs by going to My Computer->Manage->Event Viewer
While I saw the statement that it thought that H: was corrupt, it
didn't say any more than that.
Am I to believe that they will validate a drive, list files which were
corrupted... and punish people who go to the bathroom while they boot
their system and don't see the message?
I'm also interested in any suggestions for programs that scan/correct
disk drive issues. Heck, I'm willing to *pay* for the tool, so free
or commercial is just fine.
Giving minimal info to the user from such tools is just wrong (some
tools should not be dumped down to be usable by "average" users.)
Now I'm off to look at my home backups.....
Eric
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Does your hardware support SMART error reporting? If so, see if your
hardware claims that the hard drive is going bad. Otherwise, maybe one
of the Live Linux distros has smartd and can tell you the state of the
drive?
If the drive is good, can you siphon the data you care about from it and
place the data on another drive, then reformat it?
If the drive is bad, I've had excellent success with getdataback for NTFS
from runtime.org. If your H drive's filesystem is FAT, they have the same
product for another cost. Just have enough space on a good hard drive to
store the recovered files.
Or, if the drive is FAT, and you can boot into it, and it has enough free
space, try converting it to NTFS (convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs) and
after a reboot, it will/should convert the filesystem over.
Scott
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