|
ProoN
Enthusiast



Registered: 03/27/06
Posts: 199
Loc: California, Colorado, Michigan
Last seen: 1 year, 4 months
|
Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive
#7566373 - 10/27/07 10:48 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
So, a few days ago I decided to make one partition on my external harddrive with Partition Magic 8. I was running out of space on the partition I previously had, and had 3 others with nothing on them, so my goal was to make one out of the entire disk.
I deleted the other 3, and formatted them etc. Made them both the same filesystem and tried to merge them.
After 3 days of it checking disk integrity (some form of chkdsk, I assume), a few errors came up, one I recall saying there were too many errors to continue, and that was that. Now, I have 1 large partition, but it doesn't show up from windows explorer.
Though, in Partition Magic, it shows up and I can "Browse Partition" and see all of my data still there. I tried to copy, but when I go to paste the data to another drive, I get:
*\whateverdirectory\whateverfile.exe* has the following unsupported attributes: compressed Operation cannot be completed
So my question is, does anyone know how I can recover my data? I've been using PMagic for a while, and this is the first time it's ever fucked up on me.
~Any~ help with this is appreciated.
Also! I see some free space available, which, shouldn't be there. It's only 7.8 MB small, though. Not sure if that's significant or not, as far as it being there goes.
Edited by ProoN (10/27/07 01:47 PM)
|
Aiko Aiko



Registered: 05/13/05
Posts: 6,395
Loc: Lazy River Road
Last seen: 7 hours, 11 minutes
|
Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: ProoN]
#7567172 - 10/27/07 04:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Is PM showing a drive letter or volume name corresponding to the partition?
-------------------- Easily test the dosage of your tabs at home! qtests.org Man says, "God, show me and I will believe." God says, "Believe and I will show you."
|
ProoN
Enthusiast



Registered: 03/27/06
Posts: 199
Loc: California, Colorado, Michigan
Last seen: 1 year, 4 months
|
Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#7567255 - 10/27/07 04:42 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
It didn't, but I was sort of hesistant to make it show one.. because, well, I could still see the data as it were.
Though, I did make a drive letter for it, and windows now recognizes it, but doesn't let me view the data. When I try to open it, I get:
E:\ is not accessible.
The file directory is corrupted and unreadable.
PMagic doesnt show anything, either. And no, I didn't format. I just associated a drive letter for it.
Should I change the filesystem? Think that would help at all? maybe running defrag.. I think I'll do that and I'll update in a bit.
-------------------- A human being is part of a whole, called by us, the "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
|
ProoN
Enthusiast



Registered: 03/27/06
Posts: 199
Loc: California, Colorado, Michigan
Last seen: 1 year, 4 months
|
Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#7567297 - 10/27/07 04:58 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
hmm, disk defrag doesn't recognize it. This can't be good.
-------------------- A human being is part of a whole, called by us, the "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
|
MycoThrill
MycoFreak!



Registered: 04/13/07
Posts: 243
Last seen: 13 years, 6 months
|
Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: ProoN]
#7567784 - 10/27/07 07:44 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
It recognizes it as a partition, and enumerates but doesn't actually read the information...you could always try to repair it using 'chkdsk /f'.
-------------------- "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." ---St. Augustine
|
ProoN
Enthusiast



Registered: 03/27/06
Posts: 199
Loc: California, Colorado, Michigan
Last seen: 1 year, 4 months
|
Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: MycoThrill]
#7567871 - 10/27/07 08:27 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah.. I was kind of shying away from doing that from the beginning of this whole fiasco, as it deletes cross-linked files, which according to some of the built-in disk checking utilities Partition Magic has, I have quite a few of.
Tried doing a few things to help fix these cross-linked files, but no avail. My only option seems to be to delete them. But eh, I have about 90% of the stuff backed up onto DVD discs. I was just hoping to get the movies I had on there saved, as well. They're the only things I don't have backed up. You see, it wouldn't be such a big deal if I weren't on dialup. There's about 30 full length movies on there, and for dialup, is quite a long time of steady lag.
Curse dialup. It'll be the death of me.
I'm just going to run chkdsk anyway, and hopefully have at least some movies still on there after it finishes so I can back them up.
Appreciate all of the help though.
-------------------- A human being is part of a whole, called by us, the "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
|
|