Thanks, Singh ji, for posting your experience. This should help others in need.
On 28 May 2014 03:24, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Many of us must be having their collection of photographs on hard drives, > and even maintaining two copies on separate drives, as we have often heard > about external hard drives getting corrupted and all data lost. I maintain > two 1tb hard drives to store images (as a lab top with high storage gets > exhausted sooner or later) and another 3tb drive to store backup (which I > did not carry to USA). yesterday the hard drive storing all my images > refused to open. In my new widows 8 laptop it would show only disc letter > but refuse to open. In my older windows 7 laptop pop up window would come > up with only option of 'FORMAT'. I tried different leads but no help. I was > worried about what would I do for next 5 five months, especially Family > fortnights. As a last resort I searched Google for the problem and after > two commands the windows was able to read the drive and went through a > procedure of more than 12 hours to enable the drive to work properly. > > Run-->cmd-Enter > chkdsk C: /f /r ( 'C' signifies the affected Drive) > > This may be useful to some > > http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-Error > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> The whole world uses my Image Resource<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2330 members & 1,87,000 messages on 30/4/14) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia> . Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
