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Partition suddenly becomes unacessible?

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chiwawa626

Lifer
I just added a 20 gig maxtor hd into my system last week. I have an old asus a7v with the built in promise ATA-100 controler. Well the 20 gig hd was partitioned into 2 drives H and I, each being 10gb. I used it for about 2 weeks then the partition that i used more often drive H just started to slowly freeze up when trying to access, and now its totaly inacessible. When i try to goto drive H through my comptuer it says the drive needs to be formated...EEEEK! what happend? I have some data in there that i would like to save...but how would i do that?...Meanwhile drive I is just fine....what gives 🙁 can someone tell me what happend, and how i can salvage some of the data atleast..?
 
windows 2000...i used partition magic to check for errors and i found out my FAT has an error...scandisk and partion magic cant seem to fix it 🙁 i think the best way to deal with this is fdisk it :-\...i salvaged the data (mp3s) but the file names are all dos versions..eh...oh well ill use music brainz or something to fix em.
 
Try running chkdsk /r from recovery console, especially if you kind of have the data off already.
 
I salvaged the data then just used partition magic to reformat into ntfs since all the curruption problem ive had ever is related to fat32 drives...lets see how this works..heh
 
Originally posted by: DSE
Copped out the easy way, eh? 😉
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Didnt really know the hardway out so didnt try...but nextime something like this happens ill prolly look into the problem...its just that i needed to burn some cds for a friend so thought id get it all done tonite..and i did 🙂
 
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