Re: CHKDSK went crazy on 200GB HD upon install!

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From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:02:09 -0500

If the data is valuable, contact DriveSavers for advice.
CHKDSK finds lost clusters and saves each cluster with a
number and chk extension. You maybe able to open all the
hundreds of thousands/millions of clusters and determine
what the content is and re-assemble the original files. But
many are probably beyond economic recovery.
Do you have back-ups?

    http://www.drivesavers.com/ They have lots of free
advice on their site. 

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"SurferBoy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:11c501c4a10f$d4d66be0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
| Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in the original post.  I
| did complete the WinXP clean install and installed SP2.
|
| My problem is with the 200GB slave disk, which was
| corrupted by chkdsk when WinXP was in its original pre-
| SP1 state.  Currently, I have the 200GB drive
| disconnected, as I do not want to do any further damage
| until I know how best to proceed.  So to summarize:  I
| want to correct the corruption that chkdsk caused on the
| 200GB drive during the first (pre-SP1) bootup.
|
| Thanks!
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I would suggest creating a "slipstreamed version" of
| Windows XP
| >with SP2 and perform a "clean install".  The primary
| partition for
| >Windows XP should be at least 5% of your total hard
| drive, or 10GB.
| >You'll need to delete all existing partitions first
| before creating the
| >10GB (use 10240 to get a true 10GB partition) (10 x
| 1024).
| >
| >Either one of the following utilities makes
| slipstreaming
| >(integrating) SP2 into Windows XP a breeze:
| >
| >Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
| >http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?
| action=show&showarticle=49
| >
| >Information on AutoStreamer 1.0
| >http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?
| showtopic=188337&st=0&#entry245
| >
| >Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
| >http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
| FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-
| 9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
| >
| >Clean Install Windows XP
| >http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
| >
| >[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]
| >
| >-- 
| >Carey Frisch
| >Microsoft MVP
| >Windows XP - Shell/User
| >
| >Be Smart!  Protect Your PC!
| >http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.
| aspx
| >
| >---------------------------------------------------------
| ------------------
| >
| >"SurferBoy" wrote:
| >
| >| With the release of WinXP SP2, I decided to do a clean
| >| reinstall.  Oh, I wish I could go back in time to stop
| >| myself!
| >|
| >| My system:  60GB master HD (2 partitions), 200GB slave
| (1
| >| partition) on a Promise Ultra100TX2 PCI controller
| card.
| >| NTFS file system.
| >|
| >| 1.  Ghosted the 60GB drive (actually just the 8GB c:
| >| partition) to the 200GB drive.
| >| 2.  Reinstalled WinXP Pro.  Installation went without
| a
| >| hitch.
| >| 3.  Upon the first boot into Windows, chkdsk came up
| and
| >| ran on the 200GB hard drive.  Chkdsk went CRAZY,
| spewing
| >| a huge list of index errors and recovering orphaned
| files
| >| and various other things.  The screen was scrolling
| like
| >| mad.  My heart sank.
| >| 4.  Upon completion of the WinXP setup, I looked at
| the
| >| 200GB HD in Windows explorer.  About 20GB or more of
| >| stuff that was on the 200GB drive is missing.  And
| much
| >| of the stuff that IS there is now corrupted (including
| >| the ghosted image of the c: drive!).
| >|
| >| Here's what I think happened:
| >| Unbeknownst to me, bare WinXP (without at least SP1)
| does
| >| not support hard disks greater than 137GB.  Apparently
| >| though, not only does it not support the drives, it
| >| actually attacks them;  I think it chewed up the
| Master
| >| File Table (MFT) or partition structure or something
| of
| >| the kind.  The file data is probably all still there
| on
| >| the HD, but the pointers to the data have all been
| >| screwed up.  I disconnected the 200GB drive and
| finished
| >| the installation to SP2.
| >|
| >| Now, I'm stuck and don't know how best to proceed.  I
| >| don't want to make the problem any worse.  I googled
| >| around, and I have yet to find a solution.  I'm
| actually
| >| surprised this hasn't happened more often to people.
| I
| >| have found some similar stories, such as, for
| instance,
| >| http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=31921
| >|
| >| Do I:
| >| 1.  Re-connect the drive in WinXP SP2 and run scandisk
| or
| >| Norton Disk Doctor to try to recover the original disk
| >| structure?  (I seriously doubt this will work)
| >| 2.  Do I try some data recovery program like Ontrack
| Data
| >| Recovery or GetDataBack?
| >| 3.  Do I try some low-level program to try to
| >| reconstruct, like SpinRite?
| >| 4.  Is my "greater than 137 GB" theory about what
| caused
| >| the long list of checkdisk problems even "correct"?
| >|
| >| Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
| >.
| >

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