Corrupt Hard Drive !

woodleysec · 02-12-2009, 07:22 AM

Hi,

I have a IBM Thinkcentre AIG with a 40gb Seagate FAT Hard drive and following a power cut on Tuesday night, I have been unable to boot the pc or access the hard drive.

PC keeps stopping in post up and I removed the hard drive to piggy back it onto another pc to recover data. However after connecting it as a slave drive and accessing it in Windows via My Computer, when I click to open it, I get the message "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable"

As I have a lot of data on this drive, I downloaded "Recover my files from Get Data" and started a search of the drive. After searching for 3 hours it came back with several thousand files found, office files, jpeg etc but only about 1% can be seen in the preview, the rest showing as "preview not available - corrupt file"

I do not want to pay to recover only 1% of my files !

Has anyone got a better idea to recover my data or is it lost for good ?

dai · 02-12-2009, 07:34 AM

check these
http://www.r-studio.com/
http://www.easeus-deletedrecovery.com/

woodleysec · 02-12-2009, 09:15 AM

Hi,

Thanks for suggestions - will try them tonight and let you know how I get on.

02-12-2009, 07:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
woodleysec Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP SP2	Corrupt Hard Drive ! Hi, I have a IBM Thinkcentre AIG with a 40gb Seagate FAT Hard drive and following a power cut on Tuesday night, I have been unable to boot the pc or access the hard drive. PC keeps stopping in post up and I removed the hard drive to piggy back it onto another pc to recover data. However after connecting it as a slave drive and accessing it in Windows via My Computer, when I click to open it, I get the message "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable" As I have a lot of data on this drive, I downloaded "Recover my files from Get Data" and started a search of the drive. After searching for 3 hours it came back with several thousand files found, office files, jpeg etc but only about 1% can be seen in the preview, the rest showing as "preview not available - corrupt file" I do not want to pay to recover only 1% of my files ! Has anyone got a better idea to recover my data or is it lost for good ?

02-12-2009, 07:34 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,569 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Corrupt Hard Drive ! check these http://www.r-studio.com/ http://www.easeus-deletedrecovery.com/ __________________

02-12-2009, 09:15 AM	#3 (permalink)
woodleysec Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP SP2	Re: Corrupt Hard Drive ! Hi, Thanks for suggestions - will try them tonight and let you know how I get on.