URGENT help with Data Loss please!

[nemouk]

hello there,

to keep a short story short:

my physical secondary hard-drvie which stores my college work, mp3's and setup files has suddently become unreadable. The drive is physically ok but in windows 2000 it says "this drive is not formatted" when i try to access it. Oddly enough the files on the drive can be seen in DOS (fat32) but cannot be copied, i get a FAT error message.

I hope there is a way to get this data back, please let me know!

Thanks.

 

[dennilfloss]

Urgent Bump.

 

[medic]

Due to the fact that you have W2K, you may need to put it in a W98 box and see if you can get the bios to detect it at boot.
Go and get Directory Snoop, put this drive on as Sec.Master and run it. It's shareware but fully functional.
You could also try Lost & Found, the demo is free and will tell you what can be recovered, if it can then you need to purchase it. (you may need to do this also from a W98 box)

 

[nemouk]

thanks all for your replies, i have a few programs and am in contact with a data recovery expert, it seems like my FAT table is busted, according to him should be quite straightfoward to fix.

Thanks for your help.

 

[nemouk]

hello again

to let you know i downloaded lost & found and that managed to retrieve about 70% of my files, i got all my coursework back and most of my hard to find files so all is not lost

thanks again!

 

[Gunbuster]

Todays lesson: Invest in a backup media (cdr/tape/whatever) and backup often

 

[nemouk]

ironically enough a few days before the incident i had just brought a TDK Cyclone and had only got the chance to back up a few folders of stuff...