Edit: How to recover files from corrupted disk?

[bgc99]

A program I was using crashed and corrupted the directory structure on one of my disks. When I click on the drive in Explorer, I get the msg. "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable".

When I look at the drive in the computer management console under disk management, it shows the drive as having 100% free space, but it is not readable from there either. I tried running Norton Disk Doctor but it says unable to access drive, the volume does not contain a recognized file system.

I tried running chkdsk from a cmd window, it said the type of file system is NTFS. Unable to determine volume version and state. Chkdsk aborted.

Is there any way to recover the files on this disk?

EDIT:
I downloaded File Scavenger, it quickly shows all the files and folders. The disk just can't be accessed in windows or dos. Anyone know how to restore a corrupt disk to make it readable in windows if the directory is intact? I don't want to have to spend money if I don't have to.

Thanks,
BGC

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: bgc99
A program I was using crashed and corrupted the directory structure on one of my disks. When I click on the drive in Explorer, I get the msg. "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable".

When I look at the drive in the computer management console under disk management, it shows the drive as having 100% free space, but it is not readable from there either. I tried running Norton Disk Doctor but it says unable to access drive, the volume does not contain a recognized file system.

I tried running chkdsk from a cmd window, it said the type of file system is NTFS. Unable to determine volume version and state. Chkdsk aborted.

Is there any way to recover the files on this disk?

Thanks,
BGC

Locate OnTrack "Easy File Recovery Professional" Software.

it is 400.00 retail.. the data recovery companies are predators...

 

[bgc99]

Locate OnTrack "Easy File Recovery Professional" Software.

I want the data, but not that bad. I'm looking for a free or nearly free solution.

BGC

 

[Zepper]

R-Studio from http://www.r-tt.com - you can try it for free from the link at MajorGeeks.com and then activate it for the recovery if you see it'll work for you. There are several other free data recovery programs there at M-G. You can try any of them as long as they only try to READ from your fragged drive, they won't do any more harm. Any writing to it might make the situation worse.

.bh.