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Repair Hard drive mbr Help
Hello Everyone
I am not sure where to post this but I could not find a news group for hard drives. I have external usb drive which the drive is an IDE I used Partition Magic 8 to perform a change of cluster size so I could merge the two partitions but the Partition Magic hung that is does not respond. I need some software to recover the drive. The message I get is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Can you suggest some software to receover the drive. Thank you. |
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u... Hello Everyone I am not sure where to post this but I could not find a news group for hard drives. I have external usb drive which the drive is an IDE I used Partition Magic 8 to perform a change of cluster size so I could merge the two partitions but the Partition Magic hung that is does not respond. I need some software to recover the drive. The message I get is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Can you suggest some software to receover the drive. Thank you. Does the drive have files you want to save or do you just want to use the drive? later..... |
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says... Hello Everyone I am not sure where to post this but I could not find a news group for hard drives. I have external usb drive which the drive is an IDE I used Partition Magic 8 to perform a change of cluster size so I could merge the two partitions but the Partition Magic hung that is does not respond. I need some software to recover the drive. The message I get is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Can you suggest some software to receover the drive. Thank you. I've used the following software and it's worked for me. http://www.ptdd.com/ I do not recommend trying this over your USB connection. I've always taken the drive out of it's external enclosure and attatched it to an IDE cable directly to the motherboard. This eliminates the possibility of your USB chips being flaky. Bill -- Gmail and Google Groups. This century's answer to AOL and WebTV. |
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"spock" wrote in message u... Hello Everyone I am not sure where to post this but I could not find a news group for hard drives. I have external usb drive which the drive is an IDE I used Partition Magic 8 to perform a change of cluster size so I could merge the two partitions but the Partition Magic hung that is does not respond. I need some software to recover the drive. The message I get is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Can you suggest some software to receover the drive. Thank you. I have used this tool many times, if you use it correctly it works like a charm! http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk be sure to read the info Mich... |
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I have discovered that mbr is not the problem, but the file directory is the
problem. Everything I have tried so far does not work. The only thing that came close is GetDataBack for NTFS but because I have the demo version I can't copy any files so I can't see if it really works. possibly not. I need to fix my hard drive. "Mich..." wrote in message ... "spock" wrote in message u... Hello Everyone I am not sure where to post this but I could not find a news group for hard drives. I have external usb drive which the drive is an IDE I used Partition Magic 8 to perform a change of cluster size so I could merge the two partitions but the Partition Magic hung that is does not respond. I need some software to recover the drive. The message I get is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Can you suggest some software to receover the drive. Thank you. I have used this tool many times, if you use it correctly it works like a charm! http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk be sure to read the info Mich... |
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Why not just reformat it through windows administrative tools?
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I also need the data as well all 95gb of it.
"Carl" wrote in message ... Why not just reformat it through windows administrative tools? |
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Sorry;
But unless the "original" files were less than the individual clusters, good luck using available software. Otherwise, you'll have to seek out a hard drive specialist who can dismantle the drive and retrieve the information. Lots of $$$$$. -- Zyp "spock" wrote in message u... I also need the data as well all 95gb of it. "Carl" wrote in message ... Why not just reformat it through windows administrative tools? |
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"spock" wrote in message u... I have discovered that mbr is not the problem, but the file directory is the problem. Everything I have tried so far does not work. The only thing that came close is GetDataBack for NTFS but because I have the demo version I can't copy any files so I can't see if it really works. possibly not. I need to fix my hard drive. this is a link to R-Studio, I have used it many times with much success, but your gonna have to read the documentation as it can be a little confusing. http://www.r-studio.com/ Mich... "Mich..." wrote in message ... "spock" wrote in message u... Hello Everyone I am not sure where to post this but I could not find a news group for hard drives. I have external usb drive which the drive is an IDE I used Partition Magic 8 to perform a change of cluster size so I could merge the two partitions but the Partition Magic hung that is does not respond. I need some software to recover the drive. The message I get is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Can you suggest some software to receover the drive. Thank you. I have used this tool many times, if you use it correctly it works like a charm! http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk be sure to read the info Mich... |
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"JK Scheinberg" wrote in message ... "spock" writes: I also need the data as well all 95gb of it. Use your backups to recover your data. Yair, there's no point in telling the OP to fdisk/mbr as I believe it is not cool to have a floppy drive installed these days. |
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