Re: NTFS file header lost

From: Blue Rabbit (pickchen_at_ebooksys.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: 10 Oct 2004 23:54:12 -0700

"Grant" <devnull@spamsucks.invalid> wrote in message news:<p22ad.43709$jj2.1747111@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> "Blue Rabbit" <pickchen@ebooksys.com> wrote in message
> news:6e526783.0410091846.6f6b9a35@posting.google.com...
> > I need HELP!
> >
> > Yesterday I have pluged my external harddisk (two partitions with
> > NTFS) to another computer and my primary drive on the ext harddisk was
> > lost! I can see the drive still there but the file system is "unknown"
> > thus all my data in it are lost! I don't want to format it as those
> > data are vry important but I also don't know what to do...
> >
>
> Ouch...your partition table is likely corrupted. I have had that happen before.
>
> > I have used Drive Image 7 to backup and able to keep an image of it...
> > but it is still no way to read the content!
>
> Once you have a full (bit by bit) backup of the drive, you can try any recovery
> software you want, and just restore the image when you are done. I personally
> recommend Norton Ghost, since I know it can do a bit by bit backup.
>
> >
> > Any help is appreciated, any successfull example will be much much
> > greatful because I really hate to lose any of the files. I heard some
> > of file recovery software actually write back some info to the drive
> > while trying to recovery and cause any "permanent" damage. That is why
> > I still dare no to do any recovery yet.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I believe the last time I had that happen (this was on a FAT32 partition, BTW),
> I used a direct disk editor to rewrite the partition table manually...but I
> forget the exact procedure. I'll see if I can remember it in the morning and
> help you out if nobody else has yet. But make sure you back up the drive fully
> before doing anything, so you can start over if need be.

Thank you very much. I have recovered my ext harddisk by running
c:\Chkdsk g: /f

:):):)

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