So I backed up some files from my laptop to a desktop I have that has multiple hard drives. One specific hard drive was a bit older, but had 3 partitions, one with hardly any data on it so I chose it. For a while, the data was accessible, but just before I moved it back to my laptop, I restarted the desktop and found the drive I used to back up the data to (F🙂 inaccessible. WindowsXP does not believe the drive to be formatted. When trying to access the drive from the cmd window, I get a data error (cyclic redundancy check) error. I have tried running chkdsk (which is also automatically running at startup, and it gets to step 2 of 5, but says there is not enough space on the disk to recover lost data. The drive is a Western Digital so I thought I tried using some of their diagnostic tools, but since Windows isn't behaving well, neither are the utilities I located.
I roughly understand the idea of a cyclic redundancy error, but I don't know exactly what is going on here. Is there anyway to get chkdsk to just delete files affected by the problem? Any other solutions or ideas?
(edit) I should add that when the files were backed up, the backup system was running Windows Server 2003, but the other day I changed the system to XP. I didn't think that would matter, but should throw it in just in case.
I roughly understand the idea of a cyclic redundancy error, but I don't know exactly what is going on here. Is there anyway to get chkdsk to just delete files affected by the problem? Any other solutions or ideas?
(edit) I should add that when the files were backed up, the backup system was running Windows Server 2003, but the other day I changed the system to XP. I didn't think that would matter, but should throw it in just in case.
