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Disk structure is corrupted and unreadable

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gump47371

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I am receiving this message when i try to open up my second hard drive on my PC. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I borrowed my brother's CD-RW drive last night, because mine was not working right, and I put it in the same slot that I had mine. It recognized it ok, and worked ok. But around that time, I began getting a message during bootup that it needed to check my D: drive for consistency. I don't catch what it says after that, but it was something about an error. After it boots up then, when i try to access the drive, it tells me that the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Gump
 
you're going to have to give us a lot more info than that. What OS and file system are you running?
 
Did you do an auto-drive detect in the BIOS when you added the CD drive? sounds like you could have changed the drive parameters on the second drive.

 
K, I am running XP, and NTFS for this drive.

Yes I did have auto detect on, and I thought at first that it may have assigned D: to the CDRW drive, but in XP it is assigned E:, as was my old CDRW. Could it still have changed the specs of the HD?

If you need anymore info, let me know. I appreciate the quick response.

Thanks for the help,
Gump
 
I would recommend first removing the CDRW which started it all. Then make sure that the IDE cable is firmly in place in the HDD. Reset your bios defaults. Boot into the recovery console or even safe mode with cmd prompt and do a chkdsk with surface scan on the D:
 
Thank you everyone for all your help. I just found this on the Microsoft website via Google. This is the exact message I am getting at bootup when it tried to "check the drive for consistency". I will wait to reformat until the end of the day unless someone has an idea of something else I can do.

Makes me sick, had over 2000 MP3s on there.

Thanks again, and I will be hoping for a miracle.

Gump

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to post the link, am a little delirious right now. *Sob* Here it is *Sob*
 
>Error Message:
>Corrupt master file table. CHKDSK aborted.

>Explanation:
>Chkdsk could not interpret the master file table or its mirror on the NTFS volume.

>User Action:
>Reformat the NTFS volume. Then restore the data from a backup.

Kind of drastic! Don't jump to conclusions.

It is hard to be believe that the NTFS became totally unfixable for no reason at all. You didn't accidently hit the drive with a hammer while it was writing did you? Just kidding.

You did set the BIOS to defaults?

Is the D: drive on the cable with something else, the CD-RW for instance. If so, disconnect the other device. Check the master/slave jumpers. Try a different cable. Yanking on them could possibly do some harm.
 
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