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That is really bad. How much data do you have on it? Do you have a chance to take sector per sector copy of this drive?<br />
You can try to browse this drive with Paragon Drive Backup 10 trial: <a href="http://www.drive-backup.com" rel="ugc">www.drive-backup.com</a>&nbsp;and take sector level copy to another drive.<br />
Then in Drive Backup find Volume Explorer tab (in mid of program main window) and browse the partition. Does it show any folder?
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That is really bad. How much data do you have on it? Do you have a chance to take sector per sector copy of this drive?
You can try to browse this drive with Paragon Drive Backup 10 trial: www.drive-backup.com [http://www.drive-backup.com] and take sector level copy to another drive.
Then in Drive Backup find Volume Explorer tab (in mid of program main window) and browse the partition. Does it show any folder?

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When you boot up, what exactly does it say? <br />
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Is there a CD in the disk drive by any chance?<br />
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Do you have a bootable emergency disk (or even the Windows install disk, which you can boot from)?
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When you boot up, what exactly does it say?

Is there a CD in the disk drive by any chance?

Do you have a bootable emergency disk (or even the Windows install disk, which you can boot from)?

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Use XP CD and boot to recovery console and try;<br />
CHKDISK<br />
FIXMBR<br />

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Use XP CD and boot to recovery console and try;
CHKDISK
FIXMBR


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The drive now shows the data, but the data cannot be viewed. &nbsp;It shows the file names and sizes... all looks well but opening jpgs or docs will result in the appropriate program stating that the file is unrecognized or a bad format.
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The drive now shows the data, but the data cannot be viewed.  It shows the file names and sizes... all looks well but opening jpgs or docs will result in the appropriate program stating that the file is unrecognized or a bad format.

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Wanted to defrag my drive and it called for a chkdsk to be ran.<br />
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While running chkdsk the power went out and now the drive shows as unformatted.<br />
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What can I do?
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Wanted to defrag my drive and it called for a chkdsk to be ran.

While running chkdsk the power went out and now the drive shows as unformatted.

What can I do?

chkdsk problem

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