Hard drive problem

[Isocene]

So i just get back from being away for a day and my computer is on but doesnt turn the monitor on when i move the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard.

Ok, thats fine, reboot.

Boots up normal. I load up Azureus to see how far my downloads went. When I do that I get a little xp bubble saying that javac.exe or something from azureus is corrupt and run chkdisk.

And the drive use to download everything to, is clear except for one folder.

When I right click on the drive, it shows 8 gb free and 242gb used. So I guess its still there somehow.

Ive ran chkdsk once through windows. Now Ive downloaded ultimatebootcd and ive got all the tools on there but im not sure what to do.

Any advice?

 

[meltdown75]

Hmm. So you are not able to access the drive's contents? How old is the HD and what brand is it? Just curious. Hopefully it didn't crap out on you.

 

[Isocene]

its only about a year old 250 SATA maxtor.

It works it just lost some stuff. I think maybe it overheated or something, i got 5 drives in there.

 

[meltdown75]

What's your power supply wattage? 5 HDs is quite a few but not unheard of. However you want to make sure you have enough juice for everything to operate to its full capability.

List your whole config if you can as well as your operating system and whether or not you have stayed on top of the updating game.

 

[Isocene]

I have a True480 antec in there.

Thats good eh?

Ive been running check disk from windows and its stuck on phase 4 for about an hour and a half with only one bar out of about 25 done. Should i just let this go on forever?

Is there a better check tool?

 

[NuroMancer]

If you have another computer or if you have another os on another drive I'd try accessing the file structure from an os not on that drive and see if it can read it. Just make sure it isn't a drive letter on that drive, keep it to a seperate HDD.

 

[meltdown75]

try scandisk from DOS instead of chkdsk?