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Post October 19th, 2005, 6:28 am

hi,
early of this year i bought a 200Gb harddisk and i partitioned it into 3 drives(E,F,G). yesterday when i try to broese my drive F , a mssf pop up said : the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable..
but other drives work fines...

please tell me wat can i do , i go some data inside that drive but i willing to format it...

p/s :I didnt use this HD for 2month(was in vacation ), when i come back then become like this

please advise
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Post October 19th, 2005, 6:28 am

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Post October 19th, 2005, 6:46 am

Doing a bit of searching on Google and came up with your drive is corrupted and you will need to use a 3rd Party Data Recovery software to try and get your files back.

Some programs mentioned were:
GetDataBack
DR Disk
HDD Regenerator

None of these programs are free but they have trial versions.
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Post October 19th, 2005, 6:47 am

Try data recovery software like GetDataBack
or Spinrite then try formatting F: drive.
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Post October 19th, 2005, 7:33 am

but how is this happen ? i didnt touch it for 2months
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Post October 19th, 2005, 7:37 am

Who knows why, what matters is you need to fix that partition and get your data back.
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Post October 20th, 2005, 6:51 pm

because its windows and it could

thats my answer as to why

and if you use a linux box you could try putting it in it and pulling it to a cd or on one of the other partitions
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Post October 21st, 2005, 12:52 pm

now i dont care about the data inside, can i just format the drive - will it affect the data in others drvive ( same HD)
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Post October 21st, 2005, 1:08 pm

If the data isn't important, go ahead and format away.
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Post October 23rd, 2005, 2:19 pm

thanks for the advise - i oredi format that drive .
But i still have one question: how can i check the status of the HD? like check whether it is corrupted or not - coz i dont wana loose my data again ...
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Post October 23rd, 2005, 2:20 pm

i feel the drive still got problem- coz when i copy some files to this drive, i felt it is slower than before
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Post October 24th, 2005, 4:39 am

Run chkdsk on the drive.
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Post October 25th, 2005, 11:22 am

how to perform checkdisk ?
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Post October 25th, 2005, 11:31 am

You don't use Google very much do you?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;315265
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... hkdsk.mspx

this is done from the command prompt

Click on start, then run, type in cmd and press enter

At the command prompt trpe chkdsk x: where x is the drive letter you want o check and then press enter.
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Post October 25th, 2005, 6:00 pm

This has happened to me before, I also ended up formatting, it was not a fun thing. I had programs, music, and movies that I ripped onto it. I lost them all :(
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Post October 31st, 2008, 10:45 am

use the command chkdsk /f f:
This will cure any problems your hard drive may have.

the f is short for fix

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