help with hard drive problem

[morgash]

ok so here is the deal. in my main comp in my sig i have a WD 3600 (360 gig) SATA hard drive. Recently i sent in my 7800gt to evga for a step up and was forced to throw in a x800xl just so i could still game. after uninstalling the NV display drivers and reinstalling Cat 6.4's i tried to access my storage drive only to find trhat it came up with an error as follows:

E:\ is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

Can't scandisk it, cant do anything to it at all. BIOS reads it as perfect, all settings are correct, jumpered as slave and set on correct SATA channel, AKA all the same settings before it started this and was working perfectly. I just plugged it in to my backup comp to be sure and sure enough same thing. soooo need a solution here that does NOT involve formatting the drive if at all possible. I have ALL my programs i use when i build comps(virus scanners, drivers, etc.) about 248 movies, various music collections, and quite a few backed up game images(legal I am running xp64 pro. any help would be much appreciated

Thanks,
Morgash

*EDIT* I am quite computer savvy (build em on the side) so dont hesitate to get technical)

 

[bluestrobe]

You could recover the data but the fix the hard drive so it will work like it did is impossible. The program I used was restore 2000(?) but I don't know if it exists anymore. Google to find a program that does what you need. Also mentioning that your have warez isn't the smartest thing to do on a forum such as this.

 

[RBBRMADE]

Have you tried to scandisk from Recovery Console?

 

[morgash]

chkdsk tells me there are one or more unrecoverable probelms

 

[RBBRMADE]

Use knoppix in a network setting. Move all of your files that way.

 

[DaRkLoRd666]

ummm... try pulging in the hard drive into a different computer and rescuing the files. then reinstall.

 

[RBBRMADE]

Originally posted by: DaRkLoRd666
ummm... try pulging in the hard drive into a different computer and rescuing the files. then reinstall.

ummmmmmmmm......read the first post......

 

[morgash]

lol already tried that

 

[morgash]

ttt

 

[RBBRMADE]

Did you try knoppix?

 

[Quinton McLeod]

Sounds to me like corrupt metadata. See if you can view the HD with Knoppix. If you can't, then you WILL have to reformat. If you can, then you may be able to run a disk check.