Saving an NTFS drive?

[HS911]

Well, XP sees the drive, but tells me that it's not formatted. It's just a data drive, not my boot drive, so I'm not terribly screwed, but I have data that I'd like to get back. I really have no idea where to start with this. Anybody got any tips on how to recover my data?

 

[Mavtech]

Does the computer see it in Windows Explorer?

I had a person that had that exact same problem. All we did was reseat the IDE cable and it came back.

 

[BadThad]

Did you try to activate it using Drive Manager?

 

[HS911]

Well, I've tried most of the basic stuff like checking to see if the cables are seated and whatnot. The drive was actually working fine for a while, but then I got an error saying that some of the folders on that drive were corrupt, and when I tried to access the drive to save some of my data, XP told me that the drive wasn't formatted.

 

[BadThad]

So you've tried a new IDE cable? Never just check to see if a connection is secure in a PC, pull the cable all the way off and put it back on. If you put on a new cable and the problem persists, run the HDD manufacturer diag program on the drive to check for errors.

 

[Abhi]

GetBackData for NTFS... Google for it.

 

[Mavtech]

If you can, get a hold of Norton Systemworks and use Disk Doctor on it. Disk Doctor and Win Doctor have done wonders for me. It may be able to tell you if something on the disk is corrupt.

 

[HS911]

Well, I tried reseating the cable, swapping cables, swapping the drive from slave to master and swapping IDE channels.

Right now I'm letting GetDataBack scan the drive, so hopefully that will allow me to save some of my data. I'll try and find a copy of Disk Doctor to run if that doesn't work. Thanks for the help guys.

 

[BadThad]

Be sure to run the mfg diag tool on it too. You don't want to be storing any more data on a bad drive.