Hard drive no longer recognized - please help

[nikko]

I have a 400 GB slave drive that I use as my main data drive. Last time I checked, it was very full. Maybe one or two GB of free space. Anyhow, after starting my computer today, the I: drive was inaccessible. When I try to access it in My Computer, I get the following error message:

"The I:\ is not accessible

The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"

I really don't want to just reformat this drive. There's gotta be a way to recover the data, file structure, etc, doesn't there?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

 

[Jiggz]

Try fixing the MBR or FAT table using the recovery console. If this does not fix it, then try disk recovery programs.

 

[nikko]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
Try fixing the MBR or FAT table using the recovery console.

Thanks for the tip. I don't know what you mean by the recovery console. I forgot to mention that I am running XP Pro. Can someone give me some guidance on where to look? Thanks.

 

[Judechap]

Start---->Run "chkdsk", check your hard driver to figure out whether file system is fine.

 

[Iggy09]

Hey nikko, have you solved this one yet? I'm in a quite similar situation. But I cannot even run checkdisk. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=2009128&enterthread=y