Oh god... disk drive problem after chkdsk...
I can't believe I didn't copy the data to my other hard disk first... This IBM 60GB disk has pictures of my children, holidays, valuable documents, you name it...
For days now, on boot up my windows XP system has been giving me the "one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency" screen on EVERY reboot, so I finally looked at the event log and it said I needed to run chkdsk... so I did... chkdsk d: /f in fact... it said I needed to force a dismount, which I did and chkdsk ran fine, then the command window shut and the "found new hardware" indicator came up. I then went back to explorere and clicked on the drive... cold icy dread... "This disk is not formatted..." Did a reboot, checked again - still the same. Event log has lots (about 6 or 7) of "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\D" messages, an atapi "A parity error was detected on \Device\Ide\IdePort0" error and a "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block" error...
I desperately want to get at my data - I can't believe it's gone - it's still sitting there somewhere, I'm sure, I just need to persuade the controller to spot it again...
Disk manager reports the drive as 7.75 GB only (instead of 60) and says it is a "RAW" disk...
I don't want to do anything else to the drive until I can get at the data... please would someone give me some good news?
For days now, on boot up my windows XP system has been giving me the "one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency" screen on EVERY reboot, so I finally looked at the event log and it said I needed to run chkdsk... so I did... chkdsk d: /f in fact... it said I needed to force a dismount, which I did and chkdsk ran fine, then the command window shut and the "found new hardware" indicator came up. I then went back to explorere and clicked on the drive... cold icy dread... "This disk is not formatted..." Did a reboot, checked again - still the same. Event log has lots (about 6 or 7) of "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\D" messages, an atapi "A parity error was detected on \Device\Ide\IdePort0" error and a "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block" error...
I desperately want to get at my data - I can't believe it's gone - it's still sitting there somewhere, I'm sure, I just need to persuade the controller to spot it again...
Disk manager reports the drive as 7.75 GB only (instead of 60) and says it is a "RAW" disk...
I don't want to do anything else to the drive until I can get at the data... please would someone give me some good news?
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