Tech problem: my slave hard disk "disapeared"

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MadWoffen

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He is using XP only on all his machines I think. Maybe NT on some olders.

I put folder0, 1, 2 but it could be something else. He talked to me about last week when I returned from vacation and I didn't focused on that folder name. What are the standard names for undefined directories ?
 
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I could be wrong, but IIRC undefined folder names are just that... Undefined. In other words, if they were undefined, they would just be nameless. Technically, it's not possible to read the files of undefined direcories, because the FAT would be bad all the way across the board, unless the directory structure is bad, in which case all folders would be at peer level, as in no subdirectories. So, does it look like all directories are at the same level, or is the directory tree maintained. If it is, your friends program isn't working right.

EDIT: Uh oh, you said he used WinXP... That is definately not a good idea, considering WinXP will not read/write FAT32 drives properly if the system was set to use NTFS. That could be the folder problem right there.
 
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MadWoffen

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CAVERNA2K said:
format and reinstall windows. this ALWAYS solves any problem.
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Why don't you read my initial posts first ?

1) It's my slave hdd
2) I WANT to retrieve the datas inside

:rolleyes:


Thanks Hadmar, I already tried one of these programs but I have to pay to have the full read/write access. Anyway, I already gave back the NTFS HDD. My friend told me to pass with my slave so we'll copy directly on it. I just wanted to know if there is still something I could do before formatting the slave and lose definetly my datas...


*my 7 gigs of lesbian porn* Uuuggggghhhs! :(
 
Hadmar

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You don't need write acces to the NTFS partition to read the data and write it to you primary HD...? Oh, you don't have enough space left on the master HD, right?
 
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format and reinstall windows. this ALWAYS solves any problem.
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One of the last things you want to do unless you have just recently installed. Why is it people always want to format and reinstall.

Also formating, unless there is something terriably wrong, is not required. You can kill the OS and do a fresh install.
 
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If you ever happen to get a harddrive to recover all your data to, i highly reccomend R-Studio NTFS. It scans the drive for any data (FAT, NTFS, Ext2), does not need a File Allocation Table, and saves a list of the data it found to a file. Then you just uncheck "recover deleted files" and press "recover". I accidentally formatted my 40gig HD once, I got R-Studio NTFS and it recovered 100% of all the data, compressed; videos; exes; everything.
 
MadWoffen

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Maybe that could enlight someone. Of course, I would prefer to recover the whole hdd instead of having to copy the files on another disk =>>

first image is my master drive datas, 2nd image is my slave one (as you see, there is a lack of infos available), 3rd image is a small scan that I interrupted after 30 sec (it would last some hours for the whole disk) and the result it gaves. No more directories names but everything is in "place".
 

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LieLestoSbrat

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I take it disk 5 is your "lost oir "hidden" drive that you can't get to. If it is it looks to me from the picture that you have displayed of the drive information that the drive has lost its File allocation tables (FAT). Unfortunatly if that is the case I don't know how to recover them.

Edit yes it must be the drive as it is the only drive that can store 35gb of data
 
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Hadmar

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You could still risk to let scandisk try a repair. Yes I remember that something prevents a scan but that only happens in Windows, not if you boot DOS, right?
 
MadWoffen

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Well, my friend already got the whole copy of my disk so it's useless work. I would have tried it if it would have proposed a solution to my problem (restoring the HDD).
 
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MadWoffen, I´ve read them, yes.
Just install windows over windows then... Offcourse you´ll get some big files in you personal folders, if it comes to be windows, linux, any OS you use...
I´ve done this some times, but only in desperate times.

It´s your call.
 
MadWoffen

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:con:

What you wrote doesn't make sense !?

Why should I install 98SE on a working 98SE to access a slave disk ? :con:

(and given the fact this slave doesn't work on others computers a swell)
 
LieLestoSbrat

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Installing An form of windows as far as i know will not solve this problem as the hard drive has lost some/all of its FAT, in my opinion. The only way I know to restore the FAT is to format the drive *but* that is not an option woffen wants consider due the inevitabel "loss" of data. Although the data is not actualy lost, as the drive, from what i have been told, will have just flaged that data to be written over when that space is needed.
 
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