Hi everyone,
I don't know what to do anymore... I've tried troubleshooting this myself but I need help now.
Two weeks ago I tried to do what I thought would be an extremely simple operation. On my 2TB caviar green drive I had a small unallocated partition of ~500mb. I felt like it was being wasted so I installed Paragon Disk Manager Suite 2011 and I tried to merge the two partitions. I thought this was going to take a few minutes but it ended up taking ~40 hours. During this extremely long operation which I was afraid to interupt, the computer actually crashed twice so it had to pick up where it left off. It was saying that the percentage to completion was something silly like 45235256%
Anyway I was worried but felt fairly confident that Paragon would somehow manage to fix it and not totally screw me over.. well I was wrong and I've learned my lesson.. never going to use that software again.
Anyway.. this left me with a drive that still showed all my original folders, but I couldn't enter any of them at all.
On the next reboot, chkdsk ran automatically and it found and "fixed" a gazillion errors. When it was done, I could now fully explore my partition with intact folder structure and filenames.. however sadly about 80% of my files are now corrupt and unreadable (rough estimate).
I've been trying to recover my files ever since and have had little to no luck. My first try to was to use Easeus Data Recovery Wizard. This took forever to scan the drive because of how big (and slow) the Caviar Green 2TB is.. but in the end it was able to find something like 30 "deleted" partitions. I looked into many of these partitions and they all seem to contain the same set of files. I can either recovery "raw data" or recovery the "lost files" which I already have access to. The "lost files" are no more playable then what is sitting on my drive currently. The raw files however are fully playable.. but they have generic filenames numbered from 000.extension to 999.extension etc... you get the idea.
So.. this gave me hope.. I know the files are somehow retrievable.. but so far I can only recovery them as raw data.
At the same time.. I know the filenames and folder structure is also still available. The problem is I can't find a software that will actually restore the raw data while matching them with their original filenames.
I understand my MFT is hosed... and I think my boot sector is also troublesome. I've tried DiskTest... Spinrite.. Diskpatch..
Spinrite was running fine but then around 20% it ran into an error it couldn't recover from. It hadn't "recovered" anything until then but it was processing alright. Diskpatch stalled while "trying to fix simple bootsector issues" near the very beginning of its run. And DiskTest wouldn't go as far as the option that attempts to repair the MFT because it was complaining about an issue with the boot sector not matching its mirror.. and when I tried to fix that it gave an error saying it couldn't write to the bootsector.
This was before I ran chkdsk a 2nd time (manually this time) with chkdsk /f /r options. When I ran that it said something about "repairing Usn journal files". It also showed 0 KB in bad sectors.
So here I am before you... any tips? Do you know what is the best and most efficient data recovery software out there that could deal with a hosed MFT? Is there a software that can somehow match the filenames and the raw data (I know both of those ARE available.. they're just not... linked I guess?).
Any and help is greatly appreciated.
Oh and... I'm not going to take this drive to experts. The data is not that important.. it sucks majorly to lose it.. but it's mostly just videos (that are going to be next to impossible to get back).
I'd really like to fix it but I need to be able to do it myself.
Thanks for the long read (if you made it this far) and thanks for helping me in advance!
I don't know what to do anymore... I've tried troubleshooting this myself but I need help now.
Two weeks ago I tried to do what I thought would be an extremely simple operation. On my 2TB caviar green drive I had a small unallocated partition of ~500mb. I felt like it was being wasted so I installed Paragon Disk Manager Suite 2011 and I tried to merge the two partitions. I thought this was going to take a few minutes but it ended up taking ~40 hours. During this extremely long operation which I was afraid to interupt, the computer actually crashed twice so it had to pick up where it left off. It was saying that the percentage to completion was something silly like 45235256%
Anyway I was worried but felt fairly confident that Paragon would somehow manage to fix it and not totally screw me over.. well I was wrong and I've learned my lesson.. never going to use that software again.
Anyway.. this left me with a drive that still showed all my original folders, but I couldn't enter any of them at all.
On the next reboot, chkdsk ran automatically and it found and "fixed" a gazillion errors. When it was done, I could now fully explore my partition with intact folder structure and filenames.. however sadly about 80% of my files are now corrupt and unreadable (rough estimate).
I've been trying to recover my files ever since and have had little to no luck. My first try to was to use Easeus Data Recovery Wizard. This took forever to scan the drive because of how big (and slow) the Caviar Green 2TB is.. but in the end it was able to find something like 30 "deleted" partitions. I looked into many of these partitions and they all seem to contain the same set of files. I can either recovery "raw data" or recovery the "lost files" which I already have access to. The "lost files" are no more playable then what is sitting on my drive currently. The raw files however are fully playable.. but they have generic filenames numbered from 000.extension to 999.extension etc... you get the idea.
So.. this gave me hope.. I know the files are somehow retrievable.. but so far I can only recovery them as raw data.
At the same time.. I know the filenames and folder structure is also still available. The problem is I can't find a software that will actually restore the raw data while matching them with their original filenames.
I understand my MFT is hosed... and I think my boot sector is also troublesome. I've tried DiskTest... Spinrite.. Diskpatch..
Spinrite was running fine but then around 20% it ran into an error it couldn't recover from. It hadn't "recovered" anything until then but it was processing alright. Diskpatch stalled while "trying to fix simple bootsector issues" near the very beginning of its run. And DiskTest wouldn't go as far as the option that attempts to repair the MFT because it was complaining about an issue with the boot sector not matching its mirror.. and when I tried to fix that it gave an error saying it couldn't write to the bootsector.
This was before I ran chkdsk a 2nd time (manually this time) with chkdsk /f /r options. When I ran that it said something about "repairing Usn journal files". It also showed 0 KB in bad sectors.
So here I am before you... any tips? Do you know what is the best and most efficient data recovery software out there that could deal with a hosed MFT? Is there a software that can somehow match the filenames and the raw data (I know both of those ARE available.. they're just not... linked I guess?).
Any and help is greatly appreciated.
Oh and... I'm not going to take this drive to experts. The data is not that important.. it sucks majorly to lose it.. but it's mostly just videos (that are going to be next to impossible to get back).
I'd really like to fix it but I need to be able to do it myself.
Thanks for the long read (if you made it this far) and thanks for helping me in advance!
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