XP/USB killed my disk drive?
From: Richard M. (nobody_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 03/15/04
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:34:31 -0500
I have an older disk drive - 10GB - that I wanted to get some old files off
of before I retired it. It was a slave in an old Win2000 server on a Pentium
II. I think it had been originally formatted under Windows 95. I decided to
move the data onto my new XP machine using a protable USB case, but nothing
came up. I thought that was odd, considering it had been detected and
operating on the old 2000 machine. So I plugged it back in there, booted it,
and found the names were all garbage and I couldn't navigate into folders or
anything. So I did a disk check with autofix, and I got one FOUND.000 folder
with.... 9,9999 FILEXXXX.CHK files. Unfortuantely this is data that I
actually need to recover.
Could Windows XP have scrabled my data with its brief encounter with the
hard drive? Could the portable USB case have hurt it (it worked fine on all
the others)? What's the best way to get my data back? Will I have to peice
together 10,000 files? If it stopped at 9,999, does that some data is
forever lost?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich
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