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.
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.
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