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8.4

Disc is corrupted and unreadable.

Asked by miken05 in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: attribute, record, linked, unreadable, corrupt

I have a WIN 2000 Server with 3 hdd's in it, two on the first IDE cable and a 200gb one on the second with a CDRom.

There was a power outage to this server a little while back, and since then the drive has been unreadable.

After reading alot of info on this site, the following steps were taken.,

I removed the drive and stuck it in a new machine.
I ran SpinRite on it which reported no errors.
I loaded the drive in XP and could see all files and folders, nothing lost.
I put the drive back in the Win2K machine.

Now:

In Disk Management in Win2k the drive is reported as
Disk 2
Basic
186.31GB
Online
(D:)
Healthy

However, I cannot see it with Windows Explorer, I get the message "D:\ is not accessible, the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."

I ran chkdks in readonly mode (chkdks d:) and get loads of this..

-----------------------------------------------
Truncating badly linked attribute records
from file record segment 981.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 982.
Truncating badly linked attribute records
from file record segment 985.
Truncating badly linked attribute records
from file record segment 986.
Truncating badly linked attribute records
from file record segment 987.
File verification completed.

Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.
-------------------------------------------

The drive was working fine before the power outage. It contains about 65 gb of data accumulated over a year, so we cannot really lose it, which is why I purchased the expensive Spin-Rite to do the job, but it didn't even think there was anything wrong and XP can see all the machines.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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Disc is corrupted and unreadable.

Asked by miken05 in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: attribute, record, linked, unreadable, corrupt

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