external drive issues Help!!!!

Hello peoples i need some help so here i go.......

ok i have a 500GB NTFS external WD drive and its full (theres only like 20GB left on it)
and for some reason everytime i enter a folder on there that has all my videos a little window will pop up and say (Can't read partions do you want to format)
but only when i click on that folder...

i can click on my pics and music and everything else but that one folder,
And last night everything was working fine on it...i didn't turn off the pc or unpluge the drive by Accident or anything

It says the folder has nothing in it but it should have about 420GB's to 450 GB's worth of data in it....



I used the error checking on the disk but right when phase one ends it says (Windows can't finish checking the disk)

I had a program a few ago and had it scan the drive but can't remeber what it was....but when it scaned,it said that there was (Linux ext3) partions or sectors on it or something i don't really know but i never had this drive on a Linux...

but if thats the main problem is there a way to turn back those to whatever windows uses..???


Please Help

thank you

tylor

 

Try a linux's live cd to see if you can access the drive? You may want to get another hard drive to transfer the data too.

 

Yeah I would do this or Hiren's BootCD see if you can get any data off.

 

Well im getting the live cd right now so im going to try it out....
and i have a 2TB i can use

and i looked up Hiren's BootCD i got to check that out too!!!

Thanks

any other ideas or software let me know lol

 

For basic recovery I use EASEUS Recovey wizard, though not guarenteed and it takes a long time it does a good job. Don't know if that would work on your hard drive.

 

I'll try it out..but i did the live cd and everything else on the drive showed up but the video folder....like its not there ...lol



im going to get everything off the drive thats ok and then try to get the rest with the recovery

 

Hrm that's odd. And you are absolutely sure you had stuff in that folder? Like someone else using your computer didn't delete anything on it? Stuff just doesn't disappear like that. I have only seen a couple cases where data just disappears.

We had an customer work in Audit mode for 1 year before he realized it and well of course every time you shutdown it deletes what's there as it is only a temporary Admin account. We were only able to recovery certain documents.

Though you could always retorrent your Anime folder.

 

Everytime i click on the folder the window freezes and after about 2 min the little window will pop up telling to format the drive....i can right click on it but thats about it....

Man thats alot of anime i would have to retorrent i had about 2,000 vids on there...well at least thats what it said everytime i checked to see how many files were in it...lol

i had all the ep's to bleach and naruto in there its going to take forever


Right now im using that recovery program you said...seeing what its going to do but its going to a long time,it says 8:38:28 so i say about 6:30 am or 7:20AM untell its done to see how many files i can get off

 

Oh never mind, your drive is starting to fail/has already failed. If it is still spinning fine then it is just a logical failure. Yeah I would recover your data quickly and replace that drive.

 

well i tell you what happens (if anything happens)

but its not like the world is ending....

 

I would be mortified if I lost 400GB+ of anime

 

Trust me im pissed... but maybe i will get lucky


UPDATE>> well it took 9 hours to scan my drive and IM GETTING IT ALL BACK!!!

Im even getting back files that i accidently deleted awhile back

but the bad news (well for me) its going to take 10 hours to get all the data off.....but its worth it

I got all my vids back but i lost about 40 ep's of bleach and thats about it


Thanx Tsunade