HELP! Data Loss, noooooooooooooo

Butters · 18 May 2007 at 09:09

please help, I have an external USB HDD which I use to store stuff to carry around with me. I have a lot of install XP programs on there which I'm not too bothered about, but I also have a lot of personal stuff on there that I'm just not sure I could live without (season 6 24 for a start

).

The drive is partioned in two (2x20Gb) and windows came up saying that F: was corrupt, run CHKDSK, so i did and it came up saying removing orphan files or something. Now I look on F: and all the stuff has gone, well not viewable here anyway.

Is there a way, free ideally, to get it back or something from fragments?

squiffy · 18 May 2007 at 09:20

Never trust data on a USB enclosure, I've had data loss, even though disconnected properly. Stuff just disspeared. Something to do with the chipset.

Sorry can't help with retreival.

katana6434 · 18 May 2007 at 09:40

A data recovery program might be able to help here. I'm not sure what ones are about though...

d.chatten · 18 May 2007 at 09:46

There is an application called "Recuva" that may be able to help you, give it a try, link below.

http://www.recuva.com/

Butters · 18 May 2007 at 10:03

only found pictures on there, but thanks anyway, I'll keep looking

Butters · 18 May 2007 at 10:23

Well what can I say - I think I <3 Micro$oft.

I did Start>Run>chkdsk F: /r

/r is the recovery switch, and fingers crossed it seems to be working! :eek:

EDIT!
WORKED

bledd · 18 May 2007 at 10:45

backup boy!

Butters · 18 May 2007 at 11:44

bledd. said:
backup boy!

This is my backup drive

Backing up to web and LAN now

bledd · 18 May 2007 at 12:06

backup = having more than one copy, so you shouldn't be bothered if one gets corrupted, just copy over again