Hard drive help!

[rubisco]

One of my drives that has been working and has all my MP3's suddenly stopped working. I ran chkdsk on it and the error message was

Corrupt master file table. CHKDSK aborted.

Any way to fix it without formatting the hard drive?

 

[birdpup]

I recommend shutting down the system or disconnecting the hard drive so further use does not further damage the hard drive. Order a new hard drive and then attempt a drive copy to the new hard drive. If that does not work, you can attempt data recovery to the new hard drive.

Alternatively, you may obtain the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to test the hard drive and see if any errors are discovered.

Data Recovery Programs
1) R-Studio
2) Runtime's GetDataBack
3) Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro
4) Quetek
5) File Scavenger
6) HDD Regenerator
7) TestDisk

Rescue Disks
UBCD4Win
BartPE
Knoppix

Hard Drive Related Products
Norton Ghost
Partition Table Doctor and Super Fdisk
Acronis
Future Systems Solutions
Partition Recovery

Hard Drive Manufacturer Diagnostic Utilities
Seagate
Western Digital
Maxtor
Fujitsu
Hitachi

Google
Unix 'dd' command
Linux 'dd' command
Partition Recovery
Data Recovery
drive partition strategy
drive partition primary extended
drive partition
drive partition partitions partitioning

Hard Drive Freezer Technique
This technique is useful due to thermal contraction of mechanical parts
1) Place drive in an anti-static bag
2) Put drive in freezer for at least one hour
3) Remove drive from freezer
4) Quickly install in system
5) Attempt data recovery

If bios does not recognize hard drive, then reboot and try again until that one time the drive is recognized. If this does not work, put drive in another system and hope the bios of the other system detects the drive.

Memory Tests
memtest86
memtest86+

 

[rubisco]

wow... thanks!