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Freaky HDD picture

There is nothing on there I can backup, its already trashed.... it's like this on 2 of my 80GB HDD's, not sure why, and not sure where to go from here to try to recover any of it...
 
That happened to me before with a crappy Fujitsu drive, I OC'd my celeron, and the IDE/PCI speed was at like 36Mhz, just enough to toast the HD
 
Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Did you perhaps set the system font to some bizarre font? (Here's hoping for you...)
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two of my 40 GB IDE drives work fine, two of my 80GB IDE drives look like that picture.... so I dont think its the font.
 
Unfortunately, a friend of mine went through this... and the only solution we found, after spending countless hours on trying to figure out what the hell was wrong, and tried GetDataBack, and all kind of HD recovery programs, we just gave up and he bought a new HD...
 
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Unfortunately, a friend of mine went through this... and the only solution we found, after spending countless hours on trying to figure out what the hell was wrong, and tried GetDataBack, and all kind of HD recovery programs, we just gave up and he bought a new HD...
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HDD works fine in that sense, I can add new files to it, its just trying to get the data back
 
Originally posted by: SaigonK
Dont know if this was suggested yet, but did you think it might be a virus?
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I took them out of the case, stuck them in a drawer, took them out of the drawer, stuck them in a computer... the 2 40's are fine the 2 80's are bad. Since all 4 were in the same system if it was a virus I think all of it would have been corrupted.

I will install an updated virus software when I get the chance to check though.
 
that happened to me before...

did a surface scan in dos mode, it took several hours, and eventually i had a 800gb hard drive at the end... with cetain directories totaling many terabytes...

however i didnt lose everything, but i lost enough
 
Other than recommending some edit their posts 🙂

It appears the FAT table got corrupted and the file system is reporting it as if it were correct.

You may be able to restore it with tools (there sometimes is a backup FAT or something), but I have not had much luck with it as it was more of a physical failure of the drive itself than a writing corruption.
 
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