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    HDD Enclosure Data Corrupted

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mujtaba, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. mujtaba

    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    Well, my father has this HDD Enclusure (my Notebook's old 60GB HDD is in it), and is working with it [nothing beyond office stuff like Word and Excel and Acrobat reader], Windows crashes, and the two partitions in the HDD are corrupted, to the point that in either drives, there is ONLY a file with usbXYZ (XYZ being random characters), which is not accessible and is not as large as the data that used to be in the drive. I tried deleting the partition table and re-finding the partitions, it did re-detect the drives, but the content is the same as it was [so the cylinders and sectors have not changed it might be the directory structure], all that is possible to solve this seems to be a very tedious undelete session (yes, undelete can find all the files)...

    Anyone has an idea/tool that can fix this problem ? [besides undelete :)]
     
    mujtaba, Aug 3, 2008
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  2. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    How did you try deleting the partition table, and refinding the partitions?

    I ask because you mention it rather non-chalantly and that's not exactly a straightforward operation--I wonder if what you say and I am thinking are the same thing.

    How was the drive partitioned originally? Fdisk? Windows disk management? Third party utility that came with enclosure?

    What was the format? NFTS? Fat32? Ext2? Reiser?
     
    gerryf19, Aug 3, 2008
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