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My files are #$#%#$! Put media HD into a different machine and all became mixed up..

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IamDavid

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Pictures won't open.. WTF happened and how do i fix... 200gb's of media files..

All I did was take out of my main rig and put into a file server.. Booted up and had a chdsk error which it said it corrected.. I've traded this HD out to many different machines whithout any probs..

I can be watching one movie and all of a sudden it switches to another.. Same with MP3's..
 
Can you put a little more information into this thread?

I'm guessing that what have done is to remove your boot (?) drive or secondary Hard drive from one XP (?) system and placed in as a secondary drive in another XP(?) system.

When the target system booted you were presented with chkdsk screen. You then proceeded to fix (?) the disk with chkdsk. When you rebooted the system you can see(?) your files and the file structure as it was before but cannot open any(?) of the files.

The files on the HD in question are all (?) media files like AVI, MP3 etc. and regardless of type you are seeing the same issue. The error you are getting (?) indicates that the file is not readable....and you want to fix this.

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The following is based on what I know and don't know.

My first suggestion would be to put the disk back where you got it and see if the files are still there and readable. If they are...you can breath a little easier.

If you can't read the files back from the old system or can't put it back in the old system, I would check some of the following:

1) do you have permissions set correctly. You took the files out of one system that may have NTFS and so would set user permissions on the file for USERS that do not exist on the target system. This can be fixed.

2) Have the files been truncated or corrupted? I would never run a chkdsk on a drive like this...especially with "fix errors" checked. You might have "Fixed" you files into oblivion. A filesystem corruption can cause lots of aweful stuff.

3) systematically go through as many files as you can and see if there is a pattern to the errors. Maybe you messed up a folder or just part of the drive.

that's all the quesses I have for right now.
 
Originally posted by: Cr0nJ0b
Can you put a little more information into this thread?

I'm guessing that what have done is to remove your boot (?) drive or secondary Hard drive from one XP (?) system and placed in as a secondary drive in another XP(?) system.

When the target system booted you were presented with chkdsk screen. You then proceeded to fix (?) the disk with chkdsk. When you rebooted the system you can see(?) your files and the file structure as it was before but cannot open any(?) of the files.

The files on the HD in question are all (?) media files like AVI, MP3 etc. and regardless of type you are seeing the same issue. The error you are getting (?) indicates that the file is not readable....and you want to fix this.

________________________
The following is based on what I know and don't know.

My first suggestion would be to put the disk back where you got it and see if the files are still there and readable. If they are...you can breath a little easier.

If you can't read the files back from the old system or can't put it back in the old system, I would check some of the following:

1) do you have permissions set correctly. You took the files out of one system that may have NTFS and so would set user permissions on the file for USERS that do not exist on the target system. This can be fixed.

2) Have the files been truncated or corrupted? I would never run a chkdsk on a drive like this...especially with "fix errors" checked. You might have "Fixed" you files into oblivion. A filesystem corruption can cause lots of aweful stuff.

3) systematically go through as many files as you can and see if there is a pattern to the errors. Maybe you messed up a folder or just part of the drive.

that's all the quesses I have for right now.
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Agreed....stop, relax, and tell us more.
 
Sorry guys, here's a bit more info..

The drive has always been a secondary "media" drive. Started in a Win2K system a long time ago. Then moved to diffeent XP systems over time, even a UBUNTU system. The last system was a XP system again then to the current Win2K server.

There seems to be no ryme or reason to which files came "messed" up. Some movie files are fine and some MP3's or pictures.. Snce I noticed what happened I haven't had any issues with the drive again..
And the permissions are set right..

Thanks for any help..
David

 
It would appear chkdsk found directory tree/sector issues and "x ed them out", possibly from a drive starting to fail. (Dont know if your file server box get hotter???)
The first thing to do, as always, is to use drive manuf. testing utility and do the full scan on that drive. Your data is not lost, just confused.
Basically, you are now in data recov mode.

If its that important, you should buy an identical drive and use a live knoppix CD or install some linux dist on new bigger drive, slave bad HDD and move data over. Linux doesnt care about your XP file tree for just data HDD. This even works with Partition Tragic failed ops with unreadable data partitions.

 
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