can any1 help recover my hard drive??

[morphyx]

something about my slave D drive says the partition is corrupted or bad LBA setting. its a maxtor 18gig 7200 2 months old. maxtor says to run this dignostic program to see if it needs replacement,but the prog ERASES everything!

the drive had 2 folders, one stayed and the other doesnt show. so, i moved the one folder to my c drive. now, D shows empty in windows explorer, but if i right clik and choose properties, it shows up as 9gig used. so the data is there, not erased. but, the folder and files dont show and i cant access them.

does any1 know of a prog somewhere that can recover the files somehow?

 

[Emeric]

It's not in the recycle bin by any chance?

Where exactly does it say "the partition is corrupted or bad LBA setting"? Is the Maxtor partitioned?

Do you know the names of any of the files so you can perform a search to see if somehow they were moved to another location?

Also, check the drive out at a command prompt. Go to start/run , type in command

Do a DIR on there and see what's up, try a DIR /ah too.

 

[JerryD]

Scandisk

As a last resort I would run the scandisk program that comes with Win95 or Win98. It is under the progrms menu.
I would only do this when other fixes didn't work. If the data is super valuable there are companies that you can send your drive to for repair and recovery. They are on the Internet. Only run scandisk once you have tried all other ideas.

 

[RWhite]

One more thing to try if its not too late. In the computers BIOS are kept parameters for hard drive infomation. Any hard drive over 528 megs (i.e. ALL hard drives today) needs to have LBA mode (which stands for Logical Block Adressing) turned ON. If this setting was somehow turned off (maybe a static charge caused your BIOS to clear, very unlikely but possible) then you could get a scenario very much like you described.

I agree run scandisk only as a LAST resort, it has only very basic features and in situations like yours frequently does more harm than good.

 

[OldGrover]

Not to be a prick or anything, but this REALLY demonstrates why musicians need to invest in a half-decent backup system... there's nothing like the nice warm feeling you get when you KNOW your data is safe... drop a copy in a safety deposit box once every couple of weeks and even if the worst happens - like your studio burns down - you don't lose your music...

Right now, I backup by dropping stuff on a computer across town via the Internet - not a bad solution, but I'll probably be picking up a DAT drive for backup purposes...

If you don't have some backup method - get one now. Tape drives aren't that expensive. You can burn on CD. You can dump to another drive across town. Whatever. Just do something - or you WILL regret it.

OldGrover - professional paranoid.