Does anyone know how to solve my big problem?

Question

I have 2 hard drives. Drive C has the OS & all the programs installed in it & nothing else. Drive D has all my files in it. I backed up my files 3 years ago worth about 20 GB and have since then added more files worth about 40 GB. I was about to back-up by next week, but S**T happened.

At least a decade of time and hardwork invested in that drive down the drain, cause it crashed! It's capacity is 80 GB. But, when you click on properties it only registers 128 KB!! Please help me!!! :-(

Answer 1

Try it as a slave drive in another PC. If the files open, burn them on a CD. Otherwise, you need professional help.

Moral lessons:
1. Back up!
2, Back up!
3. Back up! CDs and DVDs are now dirt cheap.

I use 2 back ups, CD plus external drive and I dream of having NAS back up some day.

Answer 2

Doesn't sound good. The first thing I would do is open the case and re-seat the cable connections. Boot up Windows and see if there's any change.

You might want to try to run chkdsk from the recovery console on the XP disc. You'll have to change the directory once in the recovery console so that it scans the correct drive. You'd use the cd command to do this. Here's instructions...

CD and CHDIR
Use the cd and chdir commands to change to a different folder. For example, you can use the following commands:
Type cd .. to change to the parent folder.
Type cd drive: to display the current folder in the specified drive.
Type cd without parameters to display the current drive and folder.
The chdir command treats spaces as delimiters. Because of this, you must put quotation marks ("") around a folder name that contains a space, for example:
cd "\windows\profiles\username\programs\start menu"
The chdir command works only in the system folders of the current installation of Windows, in removable media, in the root folder of any hard disk partition, or in the local installation sources.
CHKDSK
chkdsk drive /p /r
The chkdsk command checks the specified drive and repairs or recovers the drive if the drive requires it.The command also marks any bad sectors and it recovers readable information.

You can use the following options:
/p : Does an exhaustive check of the drive and corrects any errors.
/r : Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information.


Note If you specify the /r option, the /p option is implied. When you specify the chkdsk command without arguments, the command checks the current drive with no options in effect.

When you run the chkdsk command, you are required to use the Autochk.exe file. CHKDSK automatically locates this file in the startup folder. If the Command Console was preinstalled, the startup folder is typically the Cmdcons folder. If CHKDSK cannot find Autochk.exe in the startup folder, CHKDSK tries to locate the Windows CD-ROM installation media. If it cannot find the installation media, CHKDSK prompts you for the location of the Autochk.exe file.

If that doesn't work you could try to pull the drive and stick it in a different computer as slave and see if it recognizes the entire drive.

Answer 3

does not sound good! but lets start at the beginning
first off go into bios and "autodetect" the drive to check that the hardware is still being reported correctly.
next go into safe mode - can you access files that way?
after that, go into device manager see if windows recognizes the hardware correctly
as a last resort, right click my computer choose manage then disk management.
look at the partition information is it reported correctly or not.

you could try to repartition using partition magic bu i would think that the data would be scrap if you have to go that far - its worth a try though right?
if still no joy, bite the bullet reboot from ms dos disk #1 and run fdisk
remove the partition completely
then boot into windows and recreate the partition in disk management [until you do, the drive will not be visible at all in my computer]

thoroughly check drive c for viruses [or is it viri?] before completion

will keep my fingers crossed for you
best of luck
Andy

Answer 4

If the data is important please take help from a professional.... I u urself wanna try..
If it is a virus then Remember virus multiplies so do not open or try too many files. Now boot from a windows cd and format ur c: and reinstall windows. Then without doing any thing install latest anti virus and now scan ur computer.
If hard disk has crashed take help of a good professional all the data can be recovered from a crashed hard disk also.

Answer 5

Have you tried using the windows checkdisk or scandisk tools? If your OS is XP, boot from the CD and run recovery console. There are tools there such as fixmbr which might help.
Go to the disk mfg web site and download there diagnostic. Western Digital also has repair tools on their site.

Answer 6

How does the GOP assume to sparkling up severe issues whilst they scorn the candidate that has severe strategies? rather my question is much greater proper. everybody different than Ron Paul will make funds on the debt smaller than the interest on it. i'm hoping you a minimum of understand math properly adequate to understand the place that leads us.

Answer 7

sounds like you have a virus eating up your hard drive space. Call the Geek Squad from Best Buy. They can help.

Answer 8

try formating the drive that has the os and see

Answer 9

I wish i could