Help, lots of things lost!

[willd58]

Please help, i just turned my computer on and my second HD, the one with all my important stuff (luckily the really important stuff is on both HD's and CD) but still, a lot of stuff very dear to me, has gone. well, the HD has, its a samsung spinpoint HD and the icon for it is there in windows, but it also says it is corrupt and unacessable, and in properties it says 0 for capacity, free space and size etc etc

Does anyone know of anything i can do? this is a last resort of the highest order but im desperate, i have accepted that its all gone but anything you guys can save i will very much apreciate.

 

[smids]

You said it was a secondary drive?

Open up command prompt (Start > Run > cmd > ENTER) and then type the following:

chkdsk d: /p /r

(where d is the letter of the drive e.g. chkdsk z: /p /r if the drive letter is z) and then hit enter.

If there are any bad blocks/bad file system errors, this can recover them, however if the drive has loads of bad sectors, the chances are reduced. Try it and see how it goes.

 

[willd58]

thanks for the advice, as it was 2am when i posted i seeked help from a few american's and they gave me a program called "Recover my files" it seems to have worked fine, the only problem is i need another HD to put all my old files on, might aswell order all the other stuff iv wanted from OcUK aswell while im at it.