I was running a defrag program on a hard drive and accidentally copied some data to the hard drive at the same time. My computer completely froze before I had a chance to cancel it.
When I tried to turn my computer it wouldn't restart and just froze on the loading Windows 2000 screen after 8 bars showed up. I unplugged the hard drive and was surprised that the computer then started up fine. The reason I was surprised is the OS is not on that hard drive.
I then powered up my computer and plugged in the damaged hard drive to an external device so it shows up as an external drive. When I go to it I see it as having nothing at all (0 bytes free and 0 total).
What should my next step be in the morning? Should I run disk check, defrag, or anything else first? Or should I run a disc recovery program first?
2007-02-08 16:15:00 · 5 answers · asked by Joe 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The disk is not physically damaged & I doubt the file data was deleted.
It seems that the MBR (Master Boot Record) has been cleared .
There are programs & services available than can repair this :
http://www.softchecker.com/files/boot_5.html
http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/keywordpages/dbf.htm
http://www.partition-recovery.com/products.htm
Some are available for free on filesharing sites ... look around & you will find them.
Search for "MBR repair", "corrupted hard disk", or "partition recovery", etc ....
regards,
Philip T
2007-02-08 16:31:46 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-11 02:38:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check this link out:
Hard drive recovery utilities: when you can't afford to lose that data
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2005/12/hard-drive-recovery-utilities-when-you.html
2007-02-13 05:52:35 · answer #3 · answered by kiltakblog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
punch it hard, it helps me good luck
2007-02-08 16:24:00 · answer #4 · answered by ash7600 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
you cant..
2007-02-08 16:23:58 · answer #5 · answered by sandycruz w 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋