HDD troubles
 

it was after-life LAN this weekend. i format windows partition, reinstall windows. i forgot to backup a few folders so i use getdataback for NTFS. windows locked up and i rebooted.

- winxp doesnt boot. it stays on the bootscreen
- win2000 on other partition: same
- repair or install windows: locks up when scanning HDD

- put HDD in other PC:recognized in BIOS, not recognized under windows

only solution: lowlevel format, but ive got all my data still on the drive so thats no option

only under linux the HDD WORKS. but the linux NTFS drivers suck, i both get errors with my own kernels as with the default 2.4.x kernel with NTFS patch. after ive copied some data I get DMA/IRQ errors and i have to reboot

i am now under Knoppix 3.3 booted from CD. and im about to loose it.noppix hangs when it reads the NTFS partitions

anyone knows a way to recover the data? :(
:( :(

if the drive doesn't work under windows with another install your pretty much sc*wed

yes I know

- i can install linux on other partitions so the HDD nor mainboard arent broken
- i can read the other NTFS partitions but the drivers always locks up. tried three different kernels and its always the same

don't go the linux way, linux doesn't support NTFS properly.

if you hook the drive up to a windows install you don't see it in the disk manager??

nop. tried it both with terangreal and rub87's computers :(

i'll go buy a SATA -> PATA adapter I think, and try it on another PC

and in both computers they had SATA drivers installed in Windows?
were they using SATA drives in their systems?

TerA's system has PATA drives, so it's fairly possible that no SATA drivers were present in the OS.

I don't know :(

take a small PATA drive, install WinXP on it, install SATA drivers of your motherboard on that install.

shutdown, hook up SATA, make sure it's enabled in the BIOS.
boot in Windows and verify

I'll try to visit a friend tonight with SATA mainboard + 2*80GB drives that are almost empty

partition table damaged + lots of bad blocks on the HDD

getdataback hangs when after it has read too many bad blocks. it crashes quickly after starting scanning the beginning of the HDD, when I start to scan elsewhere (with fewer bad blocks) it also hangs after a while :(

and that's why I keep DVD's and CD's with back-ups of my most precious documents and files (madshrimps website for example :))

I was about to copy the data to the PC I set up, only used right now for backups

no clue what I might do?

you could try ghosting the faulty disk to another one, and then try the recover from that disk, but that succesrate is low.

fyi: I've woken up at 9 o' clock this morning to continue my attempts to recover data. it's half past 23h and I'm still busy with this crap :(

you could have reinstall your OS and retyped all that lost data 3x now.

trying file scavenger now. doesn't do much. why do all these stupid recovery programs hang :(

because your HD is corrupt.

wtf, getdataback always hangs when it tries to read a specific sector!

trying to scan a few GB at a time...

scanning a few GB at a time... scribing down bad sectors

found a part of the MFT or something like that. found a part of my pictures :D

yes that Q1 mod is cool.

I'll visit their site, or e-mail the company to get more info on restoring data

No ****, I just got a virus from ohl-place.com

Son of a B.....

Just lost a couple important emails ..... reloading XP.

Did not get into the server, thank God for that.

just got my hand on my USER FILES folder. seems pretty intact, but the files that are not in a folder seem to be missing. USER FILES\school.doc etc. is missing

for the record:

my rig had the proper S-ATA drivers installed at ALP

fiddled around a bit, combining S-ATA and P-ATA HD's friday, but had some problems with this ... reason why my rig didn't want to boot my winXP install straight away, when I added teus' drive

in the future maybe use http://www.connected.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/15/online_backups/