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Partition data move locks on 19%?

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KnickNut3

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Uh oh...

On my secondary hard drive, I have two partitions - one for my ghost images, and one for my downloads/tv shows/etc. I needed a little more room for my downloads, and I was cutting back on my ghost images, so I decided to make my ghost image drive about 8 GB smaller, and give that space to the downloads drive.

I fired up Partition Magic and set that all up correctly. It asked to reboot, so it did. On the reboot, the ghost drive resize went fine. When it went to move the data on the downloads drive, after about 15 minutes it got stuck on 19%. Nothing would happen for about 20 minutes, although the Hard drive LED was still on. I was forced to reboot. It booted fine, but many of the files were corrupted on that drive, and, although Partition Magic read the drive as having my changes, Windows XP did not see my downloads drive as any bigger. My computer said it found new hardware and wanted to reboot, so I let it. On the reboot, it did a checkdisk, and on the checkdisk it fixed my drive index. It saved about 300 orphan files, or something like that, most of which were the videos that had been corrupt. (At this point, I'm thinking "Yes! Thank you WinXP for fixing this problem!")

I boot up again, but the files are still corrupt, and WinXP and Partition Magic 7 still give me different stories as to the makeup of my drive. I figured I'd resize my Downloads partition by a very small amount just so it would re-establish everything. It's doing this in Windows as I type. It started moving data again, and it again got stuck on 19% 🙁. Is there some bad data/sectors at 19% into my data or something? How can I salvage as much data as possible? (Some of my videos are very hard to find... some of it is my personal backup data, too.) Any suggestions to make this work? I tried checkdisks and scandisks and Partition Magic drive check as well, and all turn up with no errors. It just can't move the 20th percent of the data. 😱 Please help 🙁

Thanks
 
The only reasoning behind my thought was because it was moving at about 1% per minute and then stopped for 20 minutes, it had locked up. My hard drive had also seemed to be making a weird noise (faint whirl of sorts), so I figured it was stuck. I didn't know it was not an evenly progressive thing - I'll know for next time to leave it for hours, even if it is stuck on one number.

Anyway, here's an update: I left it "locked up" on 19% when I just went out for 2 1/2 hours. When I came back, it was completed successfully. I tried some files, and they're still corrupted, but others seem OK. I'm not sure if any that were corrupted before are fine now.

Before I do much else on this machine, what do you suggest I do? Data recovery doesn't seem like it will help at this point, since it's now Partitioned throughout all the space and everything, although you all are the experts. Should I defrag to try to get some files back? Just delete what's gone and not cry over it? If and when I clean this up, would it be best to re-zero this hard drive in case some of the stuff I did created bad or corrupt sectors/etc? Thanks for the suggestions before I do anything else.

KnickNut3

P.S. All my actions with this computer that I'm doing now (internet, normal running of the machine) all write to a different physical drive - that drive is just for images and downloads, so being online here probably shouldn't affect it (at least I hope).
 
I think what you have are some corrupted data files. I don't see it as bad sectors on the drive. What you might do is to try and out which data files are bad and which are good - and the proof of the pudding is opening them in whatever app they belong to and see. A corrputed file will not be able to be opened. So - you then delete the corrupted ones and get on with life. Hopefully, you have them backed up somewhere. Are we talking about the Ghost images or downloads or both?
 
Mostly the downloads (and some backups), so yes, I guess life goes on, although I'd like to save some of these files if at all possible -many were hard to find and harder to get. Yes, that's how I've been testing to see if they are corrupted.

The very ironic thing was that after I did this to get some space, I was just going to burn a batch of CDs of these files anyway... lol

UPDATE - I was suggested elsewhere to try some data recovery.

I got my hands on R-Studio from a friend. I looked at my drive. The only things that were X-ed and were supposedly recoverable were files I had deleted that are apparently still on my drive (I guess the normal use of this program - accidentally deleting and erasing something. Nothing I needed was in the X-ed boxes. All my corrupt files appeared as full files. I tried to recover them anyway to my other drive, but that just replicated the corruped file. I'm doing a full drive scan (and waiting until it is done, no matter what) to see if it recognizes any pieces of my files anywhere else.

I won't proceed past here. Please tell me if I will find any way to salvage files from R-Studio this way, or if there are any other methods I should take to recover my corrupted files.
 
With more investigation, I'm discovering that:

Most of the corrupted files are my most recently downloaded/aquired files (latest on the drive?)

Some recent MP3s, that will play whatever they have, are playing sound from some of my TV Eps. I guess their file tag is pointing to the middle of a video file? Something like that?

Hope this helps...
 
Have you done a thorough virus scan. I ask because you point to downloads and MP3 files - a veritable virus freeway these days.
 
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