Re: Re: Recovery of CHKDSKed NTFS HD lost data

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From: jeffrey (jeffrey_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:48:41 +0900

Hi,

Restorer2000 has a free demo, but will only retrieve files 64kb or smaller,
the full version is only like $50, but its well worth it. The tool was
referred to me by a few MVP`s after the MFT got screwed up on my main drive.
Unfortunately I didn`t have the latest data backed up, but Restorer2000 was
able to find the data and allowed me to transfer it to a new HDD. The MFT
got screwed cause the HDD was going bad.

  As for the movie repair tool, I don`t really know of any, just have to do
a Google search for that. NTFS is very safe, just a problem happened with
the HDD. Usually chkdsk tends to find problems on the HDD, when sectors or
tracks start to go bad and tries its best to move that data to another
sector, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn`t. HDD`s are sometimes
considered hit or miss, you never know when a sector or track will go bad,
even if its a brand new drive.

Was the wedding movies on a previous computer, besides the laptop? If so,
has any new data been written to that computer, cause you maybe able to
recover it from that. If the video is still on digital tape and has been
erased, there are some tools out there that can still pull stuff off of it.
If not, start packing and say you have to go on a long business trip or
start looking for a marriage counsuler or divorce lawyer. But someone else
has to have a copy as well though.

Jeff

<R.Fodor> wrote in message
news:ciiun0lh3cltqcj0q03o71odgl67jvmh6u@4ax.com...
> Thanks, Jeffrey, I'll look into Restorer2000. Is it free, by chance?
>
> I was defragging after each file because the drive is already packed
> with other stuff, so the free space was only about 5GB. As for the
> backup, I was just about to do that when this happened. Grrrr!! Any
> suggestions as to the video tools (and how to use them)? As for the
> laptop, yeah, the drive has had lots and LOTS of stuff written to it,
> so I doubt that anything could be pulled from the laptop.
>
> What pisses me off ROYALLY is that a microsoft tool (is that an
> oxymoron?) (I should have known better: time for Linux, I think!)
> meant to help just went ahead and DELETED my data, at least in the
> MFT. So, now that there's nothing pointing to the relevant sectors, I
> think I'm royally screwed! THANK YOU BILL GATES - WOULD YOU LIKE SOME
> MORE OF MY MONEY? My potential, his passion! My A$$!
>
> What the hell happened to all this supposed NTFS safety?
>
> Thx again.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:20:56 +0900, "jeffrey" <jeffrey@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Don`t know if this will work since the chkdsk deleted some files, but you
> >can try Restorer2000. It work on my HDD when the partition tables were
> >screwed up. Also, you don`t really need to defrag after each file was
> >copied over, just copy them all over then do a complete defrag, that
might
> >have helped cause this problem. Second thing, even though you backed
them
> >up on that drive, its always best to have a second backup somewhere,
> >especially if it is as important as wedding pics and vids. Depending on
the
> >movie format, there are tools out there that maybe able to restore or fix
> >the format so you can view it again. On the laptop that you previous
copied
> >them too, did you add any new data to the drive? you might be able to
also
> >pull the file off the laptop, since the files are really deleted, just
their
> >entries in the FAT table is removed, untill you save something to the
drive,
> >the previously deleted data is still there till that space is occupied.
The
> >Restorer2000 may be able to see and recover any deleted files on your
> >laptop.
> >
> >Jeff
> >
> ><R.Fodor> wrote in message
> >news:lpbun09f1v1650eh92brdh1iji2cd5r4av@4ax.com...
> >> PLEASE! HELP!!!! Before my wife murders me!
> >>
> >> BACKGROUND:
> >> Compaq Presario 2701US laptop
> >> Windows XP Pro
> >> Que 120GB external firewire HD, partitioned into two logical drives,
> >> 80GB and 40GB
> >> Write caching on the external drive (both partitions) turned off (or
> >> so the external HD's device manager properties panel claims; I have a
> >> feeling that it turns on automatically each time I turn on the
> >> external HD {the panel always shows that it's turned off}, but I'm not
> >> positive.)
> >>
> >> PREPARATION:
> >> I took my digital wedding movies and transferred them to my main
> >> laptop HD. I then copied them to my Que external firewire drive's
> >> first partition (80GB) for storage, one by one, doing a defrag with
> >> Diskeeper v7.0.043 after each copy to ensure the drive was properly
> >> defragged. No problems with any of this. After copying the last file,
> >> I did a CHKDSK on the partition to ensure all was well, and it was,
> >> followed by another defrag just to be sure. All files copied fine and
> >> were usable without problem after the last defrag.
> >>
> >> PROBLEM:
> >> When I went back to transfer the movies to CDs as a backup, without
> >> having used the drive in the interim, one of the movies (of course it
> >> was the one with the "I do") wouldn't launch in any movie viewer. I
> >> did a CHKDSK /F in a DOS box on the partition, and the screen whizzed
> >> by with several "deleting orphan file segment" messages. After the
> >> CHKDSK was finished and purportedly "corrected" the errors (and how
> >> they got there, I don't know), my wedding movies (now no longer on the
> >> laptop internal drive or the camera) were ALL GONE!
> >>
> >> CHKDSK corrected problems simply by deleting my data!
> >>
> >> (This is why I hate NTFS, but FAT32 isn't much better. This is not
> >> the first time a chkdsk on this external drive has conveniently just
> >> flat out "deleted" data!)
> >>
> >> I assume that the data is still there on the drive somewhere but that
> >> there's no entry in the MFT for the files; hence,"no can find."
> >>
> >> PLEASE! HELP!!!! What utility or other tools can I use to get my
> >> wedding movies back? (And, please, don't tell my wife in the
> >> interim.) Isn't there something that can examine the drive, find the
> >> movie files and recover them to another drive? I have been careful
> >> not to write anything else to the drive, so, hopefully, they are
> >> retreivable. PLEASE! HELP!!!!!
> >>
> >> Thanks.
>

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