Re: Help! XP trashed my drive!

From: Mike Hall (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:54:30 -0500

Joe

With all respect, when XP threw up error messages relating to some files
being corrupt during copying, that in itself would give clues to all not
being well with the drive.. XP is not as tolerant to partially defective
hardware as Win 98 and earlier were, and will show up errors that older
operating systems would have 'missed'..

File system damage is generally the result of a drive slowly 'crapping out',
and quite why you think that an old 120mb drive works as well as a new one
is beyond me.. I have no bias against old hardware other than the fact that
older stuff may prove less reliable, as proved in your case..

Quoting from your original post.. ".. I don't get what happened exactly, or
how I can repair it. All I know is I've some important docs on this drive
I'd like to get back. Any clue as to how I can fix the XP damage?..

Any simpleton would know that you have to get a file recovery program, be it
free or one that has to be purchased, or seek the services of a company that
specializes in file recovery..

Unfortunately, free file recovery programs do not always work that well, and
some of the programs that have to be purchased don't either if the
corruption is too bad.. that leaves you with the option of hiring specialist
services.. do you feel lucky?

Also, perhaps you might like to go back to kindergarten and listen this time
as they instruct you on common decency.. 

-- 
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
"Joe Samangitak" <joesamang@address.com> wrote in message 
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> From: Bob Davis (iclicknix@cox.net)
> Subject: Re: Help! XP trashed my drive!
>
> "Joe Samangitak" <joesamang@address.com> wrote in message
> news:5e231d22.0501231821.1cd82a79@posting.google.com...
>
> |I have an old 120MB drive that I was trying to copy
> | on to my XP Pro drive. Every 10MB or so, XP would
> | stop the copy citing an error with one of the files.
> | To speed things up, I decided to have XP check the drive
> | and repair it, using the "TOOLS" tab under drive properties.
> | Well after this, I found NO more files listed on my old drive,
> | the only thing showing was the "Recycled" icon! However,
> | Properties showed the size of the drive was pretty close to
> | what it was before, meaning the data was still on the drive.
> | (All files are set to "visible" on my system, so thats not the
> | reason I couldn't see the files). Furthermore, stupid XP renamed
> | the drive volume to the exact same name as my primary drive.
> |
> | DOS doesn't show any files on the drive either, and using Norton
> | Disk Doctor for DOS to repair the drive didn't work.
> | Running CHKDSK under WinXP shows that most of the drive has data,
> | but it wants to convert the lost chains to files. I do not want
> | to allow this, because I don't think CHKDSK has a "unrepair" option.
> | Norton found over 5,000 lost chains when I ran it, and then said it
> | couldn't find the drive any longer, after I allowed it to convert
> | to files (so I undid the repair). Thus I don't want to risk letting
> | XP trash my data even further!
> |
> | I don't get what happened exactly, or how I can repair it. All
> | I know is I've some important docs on this drive I'd like to get
> | back. Any clue as to how I can fix the XP damage?
>
>>I wouldn't blame XP for your drive's demise, as it may just be on its
> death
>>bed, or have already effectively died.  Try the drive on another
> computer,
>>although I doubt if the results will be different.
>
> BZZZZT! You're BOTH wrong, and you couldn't be MORE wrong. There's
> nothing wrong
> with the drive, it works as fine as a new one. The first clue would be
> in the fact that I stated XP changed the volume label of the drive.
> The second would be after I said I let XP fix the drive, the FILE
> damage occurred.
>
> I mean any simpleton with even the most basic computer skills would
> have long ago realized from reading my message that this is clearly
> FILE SYSTEM DAMAGE, not a physical problem  with the drive. Your
> biases against older hardware notwithstanding. Kindergarten class is
> over. Please go back to school  and pay attention this time.
>
> Seriously, can anyone with a clue about XP's handling of older FAT
> systems please tell me what XP did to my drive after the "repair"
> attempt, and how to reverse the process, to retrieve the data that is
> -still on the drive-?

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