Problem with 250gig hd, shows 31-33gig

[Jamesh1985]

my motherboard recently crashed, i sent it in and got it fixed(or replaced) anyways, when i got it home i put the harddrive in and it goes to the screen about windows not being shut down properly and asked to select a way to boot, i picked them all and each time it just reboots, evertime. so i installed a new harddrive and put windows on it and it works, then i put the first harddrive in to get to the data and while it was partitioned into 4 drives windows only shows it as drive D and is 33 gig, says its healthy but when you try to get in it says it needs to be formatted............... i really dont wanna lose all my info, any ideas?

in device manager, it says the file system is Raw, when populated it says 32254 space, and in computer management, it says its 31.50 gig, healthy and online.
so its like its a brand new drive, that needs to be formatted, if that info helps


My computer ran fine before, then it just shut off and never turned on so i tried everything, then i decided to just send it back to msi, i dont know if they fixed my mobo or sent me a new one

 

[Jamesh1985]

just read that someone has a similar problem, but i really really cannot afford to lose all my data on this hd, any ideas to try?

 

[imported_Fedor]

To be honest here, the file system showing up as RAW implies at the very least that the MFT is corrupt, and I dont see much chance of data surviving either. I had a motherboard die on me once, and I didnt realise till much later after setting the system back up with another motherboard, that data on one of the harddisks was corrupted. I tried finding repair utilities but most of them were just the trial type with limited or no functionality, and data restoration services cost loads. So all in all, Id say give google a shot with things like "ntfs data recovery" (if you were using NTFS, replace with FAT if you werent), but you might have to bite the bullet on this one.

Forgot something, do you use Windows XP? Rather than device manager, go to Run and type in "compmgmt.msc". Within the thing, go to Storage, then Disk Management. See what it says about your drive there, like whether it shows 4 partitions etc, might be some more clues in there.

 

[Jamesh1985]

Thanks, i am starting to thing also that its just gone, i did the xp disk recovery thing and no luck, all the commands i tried gave errors. The only thing that worked was creating a new mbr but i get the same results.

hey, i just ran this program called getdataback, it shows

2nd harddrive - 33,028
1st partition ntfs 30,716
2nd partition dos extended lba 214,387
1st partition ntfs 51,199
2nd partition dos extened 81,923

crazy eh? it gave a sector error on the hd too whats weird is its a 250 gig hd and i had it partitioned to 4 drives

the app is running, but only on the 33,028 part

 

[imported_Fedor]

So are you successfully retrieving some data? Seems that app can actually get past some initial errors that the HD gives but can get to the data, so perhaps there is a chance you can get some of it back.

 

[Jamesh1985]

yea, for that one part on the hd it showed my files... while it was my C drive and its not the one i want its promising, but lol it says i need the licensed version to copy the files, so i am trying to scan the other sectors to see if it gets access to what i want

thanks again, i hope this works

but its not looking to good, a bunch of the files on c have a line through them , which means deleted, and when clicked i get hex numbers