zenarif

Hi. Recently my Maxtor 40gb IDE hard disk which had two partitions, one for the system files which is (C:), one for storage (D:), crashed while I was transferring a large amount of important data from My Documents in C to D:. The error was "Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check." After that I could not open XP anymore.

So, I plugged the HD as a Slave to my brother's computer and changed the Security settings so that I could access it and recover the files. But in the process, my house suddenly experienced a power outage. During reboot, the computer could not access my HD saying the sector is unreadable. The system partition was unreadable, but the storage partition can still be accessed.

How can I recover the data in My Documents now? Or is it even accessible? Thanks.

Deleted090308

Hi and welcome to TSF

Try TestDisk and see if you can repair the drive/partition.

zenarif

Hi, thanks for the welcome.

So, the program helps to repair the partition? Will it delete the files I want recovering?

Deleted090308

No, it will not delete the files - not as long as you're careful. It will let you rebuild/repair the part of the drive where the "inventory" is (if possible).

zenarif

okay. so I asked it to Analyze the partition. it creates a log -testdisk - and this is what's inside it. part of it actually, the process somehow slows down my computer.

Mon Jul 16 19:37:55 2007
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.7, Data Recovery Utility, June 2007
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Windows version (ext2fs lib: 1.39, ntfs lib: 9:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20070512)
Using locale 'C'.
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive2) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive2) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive2
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive3) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive3) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive3
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive4) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive4) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive4
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\PhysicalDrive5) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\PhysicalDrive5) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\PhysicalDrive5
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\D:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\D:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\D:
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\E:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\E:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\E:
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\F:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\F:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\F:
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\G:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\G:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\G:
filewin32_getfilesize(\\.\H:) GetFileSize err Incorrect function.

filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\H:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\H:
file_read(4,1,buffer,156310559(10337/239/63)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,78172289(4865/254/63)) lseek err Invalid argument
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 10337 240 63, sector size=512
Disk /dev/sdb - 40 GB / 37 GiB - CHS 4865 255 63, sector size=512

Disk /dev/sdb - 40 GB / 37 GiB
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk /dev/sdb - 40 GB / 37 GiB - CHS 4865 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63
NTFS at 0/1/1
file_read(5,64,buffer,6291519(391/160/25)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,6291535(391/160/41)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,6291536(391/160/42)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,6291538(391/160/44)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,6291539(391/160/45)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,6291540(391/160/46)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,64,buffer,6291647(391/162/27)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,6291655(391/162/35)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,6291656(391/162/36)) read err: Invalid argument
file_read(5,1,buffer,6291657(391/162/37)) rea................

there's no hope for my HDD, is there? or did i do something wrong.

Edit: During boot, it says for said HDD: S.M.A.R.T. command failed. Anything fixable with that?

Deleted090308

It looks like you can retrieve the files. Read this.

Deleted090308

Any success?