the file system structure on the disk is corrupt

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got an error 55 the file system structure on the disk is corrupt

cant see anyfles on this storage hard drive

running chkdsk/r atm

chkdsk /f ran fine still cant see any files

windows 8.1 still picks the drive up and says 2.62 tb used 100gb free

just cant see any of the files

got another 3tb exactly the same and plugged it in works fine
both came from a win xp system that id done the gpt trick on to get it to work with drive over 2tb (hope that makes sense)

it had worked fine for about a month

any ideas how to get it to show files again???
 
id unplugged it for a day to backup all files off a different hard drive

possibly plugged it in a different sata port but the other 2 drives work fine and a different sata drive plugged in on this cable works fine

so dont think thats caused the problem leaves me a little stumped

is the drive somehow dead?
 
Unless you've had clicks, pauses or other error messages I'd suspect that this isn't a physical problem with the disk, but somehow the file system has been damaged. Was your PC shutdown when you disconnected your drive?

How important are the files on the disk? If they don't matter then I'd repartition/reformat the drive and run the manufacturer's diagnostics to check that there's nothing physically wrong with the drive.

If the files are important though, then anything you do which writes to the disk (including chkdsk) could make recovering files harder or impossible. Testdisk, Recuva or similar tools may help analyse the disk and recover files to a separate disk.
 
not end of world if lost i do have backups
lose a few weeks of non critical files just a slight pita

i hoped with the way it was working before and isnt clicking and is still recognised there may be a simple solution reinstall ntfs driver or something

it did work briefly after reconnecting
i moved somefiles over to it thenturned off next time i turned on dnw
other hard drives all fine
 
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Sounds like your partition is corrupt. I've seen this a few times on SSD's. Try a partician magic recovery. If that fails then its a rebuild I'm afraid.
 
Good news that there's nothing too important lost - if chkdsk can't fix the problem then testdisk might be worth a go to see if it can repair the fs or at least recover the recent files.

I can't think of any obvious cause I'm afraid, and if other disks are working ok then it doesn't really sound like a driver problem. There might be some clues in the windows event logs.
 
having googled this repeatedly and not coming up with anything im no closer to knowing why

but by sticking windows 8.1 disk in and going to repair advanced options file explorer i can see all the files in some funny hidden folder

first i tried moving to a different folder id created on same drive still not visible in windows

managed to copy to a different hard drive files all there in windows

stuck original corrupt drive in old winxp pc that created the gpt it works ok can move files around and copy them off there are 3 or 4 of the most recent files that seem corrupt... i dont know why

iv put the corrupted drive in new pc and reformatted it then filled it back up seems completely fine a few weeks down line

strange problem for no apparent reason been a headache to fiddle with... would have been quicker to wipe in first place restore from backup and then redownload the new files i needed
 
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