Full Hard Drive Problem

[dibby]

Some how my hard drive is completely full. So full that windows wont even recognize it as a normal hard drive. It says it's a raw disk and in order to use it I need to format the disk. Well, I'm not about to let 100gb of data disappear without a fight. All the software solutions I've tried have failed. I think that if I was able to delete the last few files that were written I'd have enough room to fix the problem. I also wonder that if worse comes to worse could I use a data recovery tool after I format it. I keep trying to bug a friend who works down the street to let my try his hardware hard drive cloner and clone it onto a bigger drive. I know I'm not the only one to have this problem but after searching google and probing close friends for weeks on end I'm out of ideas.

 

[EeyoreX]

In all likelyhood, this isn't a "full hard drive" problem, but a messed file system problem. A drive that is simply full will not suddenly become a RAW disk. It would simply be reported as a hard drive with no free space. What tools have you tried?

\Dan

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: EeyoreX
In all likelyhood, this isn't a "full hard drive" problem, but a messed file system problem. A drive that is simply full will not suddenly become a RAW disk. It would simply be reported as a hard drive with no free space. What tools have you tried? \Dan

I agree, your partition might have been corrupted...

You will need a file recovery tool to get back your data.

 

[dibby]

I've tried all of symantec's tools, Fix It Utilities 5.0, partion magic 8, the built in windows stuff, and Winternals Administrator's Pak.

 

[egale]

Your only solution is to go with a hard drive recovery service like Ontrack's custom service. It will cost you big time dollars though.