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Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive
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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)

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Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: ProoN]
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Is PM showing a drive letter or volume name corresponding to the partition?


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Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: Aiko Aiko]
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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.


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Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: Aiko Aiko]
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hmm, disk defrag doesn't recognize it. This can't be good.


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Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: ProoN]
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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'.


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Re: Help Copying (potentially) Corrupted Data from Harddrive [Re: MycoThrill]
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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.


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